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- COMPLAINT
- COMPLAINT
While hunting deer in the Tehema Wildlife Area near Red Bluff in northern California, Jay Rathman climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gor...
- COMPLEX
- COMPLEX
Pages in 1891 basketball rule book: 2. Pages in current basketball rule book: 114.
Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, November 25...
- COMPLIMENTS
- COMPLIMENTS
The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of ...
- COMPOSURE
- COMPOSURE
Actress Carol Burnett got out of a cab one day and caught her coat in the door. The driver was unaware of her plight and slowly began to edge ou...
- COMPREHENSIVE
- COMPREHENSIVE
Original title of Noah Webster's first spelling book was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Comprising an Easy, Concise,...
- COMPROMISE
- COMPROMISE
The Little Sisters of the Poor were going from door to door in a French city, soliciting alms for old people. One nun called at the house of a ...
- CONCEITED
- CONCEITED
Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism -- but proved herself capabl...
- CONCENTRATION
- CONCENTRATION
It was in 1873, in Dublin that D.L. Moody heard British evangelist Henry Varley utter those life changing words: "The world has yet to see w...
- CONCERN
- CONCERN
Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin Coolidge had been invited. After Coolidge left, Morro...
- CONCISE
- CONCISE
Original title of Noah Webster's first spelling book was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Comprising an Easy, Concise, and S...
- CONCLUSION
- CONCLUSION
John was driving home late one night when he picked up a hitchhiker. As they rode along, he began to be suspicious of his passenger. John check...
- CONDUCT
- CONDUCT
When Queen Victoria was a child, she didn't know she was in line for the throne of England. Her instructors, trying to prepare her for the fu...
- CONFESSION
- CONFESSION
In the washroom of his London club, British newspaper publisher and politician William Beverbrook happened to meet Edward Heath, then a young m...
- CONFIDENCE
- CONFIDENCE
John McKay, of the NFL, tells a story illustrating the supreme confidence of University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant: "We were out sho...
- CONFIDENTIAL
- CONFIDENTIAL
The Duke of Wellington is best remembered as the general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. During his earlier service in India, Well...
- CONFLICT
- CONFLICT
Years ago, a large statue of Christ was erected high in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. Called "Christ of the Andes," the st...
- CONFORMITY
- CONFORMITY
Athanasius, early bishop of Alexandria, stoutly opposed the teachings of Arius, who declared that Christ was not the eternal Son of God, but a ...
- CONFRONTATION
- CONFRONTATION
Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, was talking to a reporter about a player's mistake in practice. He said, "We never let an error...
- CONFUSION
- CONFUSION
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
H. Truman.
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- CONQUER
- CONQUER
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