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Examples
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Letter carrier Kevin Pownall gathers his deliveries from his truck in Philadelphia.
Postal Service anticipates $6 billion year-end loss Ed O 2010
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Ed Pownall, from Blue Square, can match that, with his firm offering 500s, albeit with in-running prices, on Manchester City's remarkable FA Cup fourth-round replay win at Tottenham back in 2004.
The Knowledge | Which footballers have been mentioned in parliament? | John Ashdown 2011
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My personal oversized shirt favorite, though, is Thomas Pink's Pownall stripe shirt, £89.
Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Ed Pownall, from Blue Square, can match that, with his firm offering 500s, albeit with in-running prices, on Manchester City's remarkable FA Cup fourth-round replay win at Tottenham back in 2004.
The Knowledge | Which footballers have been mentioned in parliament? | John Ashdown 2011
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Pownall wrote in his diary in February 1944: "I shan't be surprised if within the next three months it is proved that Wingate is bogus; at any rate he is a thoroughly nasty piece of work."
Still Forgotten Andrew Roberts 2011
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The cattiness included Mountbatten's chief of staff, Gen. Henry Pownall, who despised Gen. Orde Wingate, head of the hardy and brave Indian soldiers known as the Chindits.
Still Forgotten Andrew Roberts 2011
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The U.S. Open is supposed to be about more than tennis, says Deanne Pownall, the senior director of partnership marketing for the U.S. Tennis Association, which puts on the tournament.
This U.S. Open Story Brought to You By... Carl Bialik 2011
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Pownall also thought Stilwell "offensive, arrogant and obstinate" and wrote that his own boss, Mountbatten, was "highly strung, inconsequential and temperamental; his tongue always runs away with him."
Still Forgotten Andrew Roberts 2011
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Henry Pownall, chief of staff for the British Expeditionary Force in France 1939, remarked in exasperation that “I am just as puzzled as the French . . . at our air arrangements.”
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Henry Pownall, chief of staff for the British Expeditionary Force in France 1939, remarked in exasperation that “I am just as puzzled as the French . . . at our air arrangements.”
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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