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  • On the night of June 21, 1966, Oliver Smedley, who operated a pirate radio station off the coast of England, shot a rival named Reg Calvert during a heated confrontation at Smedley's home outside London.

    Radio Renegades Randall Bloomquist 2010

  • Calvert died instantly, but there were other victims — pirate radio itself and, it seemed, Smedley's dream of using that colorful, ephemeral medium to help roll back the British welfare state.

    Radio Renegades Randall Bloomquist 2010

  • The move prompted the fatal confrontation at Smedley's house.

    Radio Renegades Randall Bloomquist 2010

  • But Calvert, frustrated with Smedley's failure to deliver promised equipment and payments, soon began talks with yet another pirate, American-owned Radio London.

    Radio Renegades Randall Bloomquist 2010

  • According to Mr. Smedley's overview, the American film colony warmly embraced FDR's liberal idealism of the 1930s.

    Films in Fraught Times Stefan Kanfer 2011

  • My only fear is that they will go through with some of the ideas in Smedley's letter.

    Methink SOE Is Worried! Peter 2005

  • Smedley's _Reformed Religion in France_, published in 1832 by Rivingtons, as part of their Theological Library.

    Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 Various

  • And she hid in Smedley's closes -- it was the time of mowing-grass -- and nobody could find her.

    England, My England 1907

  • "I took Smedley's place at the last moment," he whispered to her.

    All Roads Lead to Calvary 1893

  • It was Smedley's report of the School sports held the Saturday before, and was sufficiently alarming to dishearten any ordinary reader.

    The Master of the Shell Talbot Baines Reed 1872

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