Milligan

/ ˈmɪlɪɡən /

noun

1. Spike, real name Terence Alan Milligan. 1918–2002, Irish radio, stage, and film comedian and author, born in India. He appeared in The Goon Show (with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe; BBC Radio, 1952–60) and his films include Postman's Knock (1962), Adolf Hitler, My Part in his Downfall (1972), The Three Musketeers (1974), The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977), and Yellowbeard (1982). He was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2000

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She had a four-octave vocal range and the ability to perform everything from Schoenberg to a Spike Milligan hit about a man with too many tonsils.

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Emma Milligan, trading standards operational delivery manager, said they were reviewing footage captured at Northmoor Farm.

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Milligan, which was decided less than two years ago.

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Troublingly, Justice Brett Kavanaugh reiterated his position from his Milligan concurrence that race-conscious remedies like the VRA “cannot extend indefinitely into the future.”

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Roberts and Kavanaugh rejected an attack on the VRA two years ago in Milligan, but it appears they may now be looking for another way to hobble its power.

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