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Himes

American  
[hahymz] / haɪmz /

noun

  1. Chester (Bomar) 1909–84, U.S. novelist.


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While discussing God, Ed would quote Michael Himes, “There is nothing we can do to make God not love us,” and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, “Mercy, within Mercy, within Mercy.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Himes said he believes the opinion will call the operation lawful “because it was assisting a law enforcement action.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

“Think of what Russia and China just learned,” Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Legislators looked ashen and somber, and one of their number, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., declared it “one of the most troubling things” he’d ever witnessed.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025

“What does this mean?” asked Mrs. Himes, who had also risen.

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard

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