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Chisholm

[chiz-uhm]

noun

  1. Shirley Anita St. Hill, 1924–2005, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1969–83; first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives.



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Second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. thought it was going to fly entirely over the foul pole—and that the umpires would rule it foul.

Chisholm said he and his teammates “went over the video about 10 times in the dugout.”

Senators grilled Chisholm on why automatic replies were not set up to inform senders the address has since been made redundant, to which he said that it was Optus that did not abide by laws that require telcos to redirect triple-0 calls to other providers during an outage.

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"That communication... was sent to the wrong address, which we have told industry a number of times is not to be used as a source for notification," Australia's Deputy Secretary for Communications James Chisholm said in parliament on Wednesday.

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After winning a pair of Emmys for “OITNB,” Aduba added a third for playing Rep. Shirley Chisholm in the 2020 FX limited series “Mrs. America.”

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