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In this path breaking endeavor he is getting help from some of the best minds in the business: World-renowned management guru Ram Charan and two of Singh's closest confidants, Anuroop Tony' Singh and Ashwani Windlass.
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In this path breaking endeavor he is getting help from some of the best minds in the business: World-renowned management guru Ram Charan and two of Singh's closest confidants, Anuroop Tony' Singh and Ashwani Windlass.
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In this path breaking endeavor he is getting help from some of the best minds in the business: World-renowned management guru Ram Charan and two of Singh's closest confidants, Anuroop Tony' Singh and Ashwani Windlass.
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Jeen was trying to keep from laughing, and Trien was grinning, and if Windlass saw them I was going to be in big trouble.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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For some reason, freezing on Mithrada didn't seem quite so impossible after Old Windlass finished with me.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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Old Windlass -- that was what we all called him, although his real name was Dr. Wendengless -- would have discussed literature if the world had been crumbling and the schedule said it was time for literature.
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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In the short three hundred yards between the Day Point and Windlass Batteries he repented his worst thoughts.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Here five thirty-two pounders -- and, three hundred yards away to the west, in the great Windlass Battery, no fewer than eleven guns of the same calibre -- had grinned defiance at the ships of France.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Shanties may be roughly divided, as regards their use, into two classes: (_a_) Hauling shanties, and (_b_) Windlass and Capstan.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties Richard Runciman Terry 1901
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"I'll sue Farmer Windlass for the damage his pesky goats have done, so I will, for the hateful things have eaten up all my turnips, tops and all!"
Billy Whiskers The Autobiography of a Goat Frances Trego Montgomery 1891
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