Nichols
Americannoun
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John, 1940–2023, U.S. novelist, known for his “New Mexico Trilogy,” beginning with The Milagro Beanfield War (1974).
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Mike Michael Igor Peschkowsky, 1931–2014, U.S. stage and film director, born in Germany.
noun
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Her father, actor Hugh Hurd, would show her and her sisters images of Nichelle Nichols as Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Glaciologist Mauri Pelto of Nichols College has also been tracking the iceberg using imagery from NASA-USGS Landsat satellites.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The business, still owned by Ashley but run by his son-in-law Michael Murray, this month bought luxury department store Harvey Nichols and promised a "significant restructuring" of the business.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It is curious that Mr. Nichols never mentions Melville’s 1857 novel, “The Confidence-Man,” with its pointed parodies of Emerson as the chilly philosopher Mark Winsome, and of Thoreau as Egbert, a tiresome pseudomoralist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Nichols tried to stay calm, but his hands began to tremble.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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