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Chesnutt

American  
[ches-nuht, -nuht] / ˈtʃɛs nət, -nʌt /

noun

  1. Charles Waddell 1858–1932, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.


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“It’s extremely overwhelming. … There’s still so much we don’t know,” said John Chesnutt, a Superfund section manager who has been leading the EPA’s technical team on the ocean dumping investigation.

From Los Angeles Times

But weeks later, indie rock-folk musician Vic Chesnutt was in town, so they invited him to play.

From Seattle Times

Yet Butler was writing in a literary tradition that goes back nearly 165 years in English to the proto-science-fiction works of authors such as Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline E. Hopkins and W.E.B.

From Scientific American

Lance Ledbetter, the founder and co-director of the Dust-to-Digital label, recalled Vic Chesnutt, the brilliant, idiosyncratic Athens-based songwriter who died in 2009, speaking of Mr. Rosenbaum, quoting him as saying:

From New York Times

“That’s pretty jaw-dropping in terms of the volumes and quantities of various contaminants that were dispersed in the ocean,” said John Chesnutt, a Superfund section manager who has been leading the EPA’s technical team on the investigation.

From Los Angeles Times