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Nunn

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/ nʌn /

noun

  1. Sir Trevor ( Robert ). born 1940, British theatre director; artistic director (1968–86) and chief executive (1968–86) of the Royal Shakespeare Company; artistic director of the Royal National Theatre (1997–2003). His productions include Nicholas Nickleby (1980), Cats (1981), and Les Misérables (1985)

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Anthony Nunn:, external Part of the Great Britain team that won bronze at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

From BBC

Lynn Bird, whose employer Thurlow Nunn has supported the cause by providing a van to transport supplies and equipment each week, said it was important "to help and do something".

From BBC

They premiered at the National Theatre’s Olivier auditorium in repertory, directed by Nunn.

From Los Angeles Times

The provision was used by President Ulysses S. Grant during Reconstruction, Nunn said, and a handful of times during the Civil Rights Movement, including the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis, but not since that period.

From Salon

Joseph Nunn, a counsel for the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program who focuses on issues surrounding the domestic activities of the U.S. military, said that includes a provision of what is currently known as the Insurrection Act.

From Salon