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Irwin

[ ur-win ]

noun

  1. Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
  2. his brother William Henry Will, 1873–1948, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.
  3. a male given name.


Irwin

/ ˈɛːwɪn /

noun

  1. IrwinSteve19622006MAustralianSCIENCE: zoologistFILMS AND TV: broadcaster Steve , full name Stephen Robert Irwin , known as 'The Crocodile Hunter'. 1962–2006, Australian zoologist, environmentalist and maker of television wildlife documentaries; died following wounding by a stingray


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Unlike Diaz, Irwin is a veteran of music festivals, drawn to “the community and the crowd.”

As Scott’s performance started, panic set in and Irwin and his girlfriend tried to push their way out of the crowd to no avail.

Given its extensively documented history of human rights violations, Irwin should have been shut down long ago.

From Time

Mayorkas said in the memo he would schedule a meeting with DHS officials next week to plan to close Irwin and to “discuss my concerns with other federal immigration detention centers” across the United States.

In a 2016 incident, for example, SDPD Officer Wade Irwin turned on his camera only after he’d shot suspect Jesse Gomez, who’d shot both Irwin and his partner Jonathan De Guzman, who died in the incident.

Irwin appears to have spent his career championing ideas that were simultaneously perfectly logical and extravagantly bizarre.

Hippopotamuses eat aquatic vegetation, like water hyacinths—loads of it, Irwin learned.

But for Irwin—and Burnham—any resistance to their idea came down to simple small-mindedness.

One of these heroes is an insect-loving contemporary of Charles Darwin, the other a crocodile-wrestling Steve Irwin acolyte.

Some of them, like Irwin Shaw, faded early, and some, like Styron, faded in the stretch.

They released the trembling Irwin, and Nita blushingly apologized for her extreme nervousness.

And then Irwin returned with the story of the tragedy of Nita's loss at sea with her maid Lizette.

Before Father Irwin was questioned, however, there was a delightful interlude.

"I doubt if all theologians are on your side," said Father Irwin.

In 1767 Pearson married a sister of Eyles Irwin, the traveller and writer.

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