chafe
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To discuss these issues and more, I recently spoke with Nancy MacLean, who is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2021
Bud Chafe and Rupert Crocker died after shovelling snow outside their houses.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2020
Chafe is talking about the collapse of northern cod off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador 25 years ago.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2017
As Chafe observes, the St. John Passion stresses Jesus’ messianic nature and accentuates oppositions between good and evil.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 25, 2016
They with the rock’s reverberant roar Chafe blustering round their prison door He, throned on high, the scepter sways, Controls their moods, their wrath allays.”
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
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