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  • 21strike — [OE] Strike comes from a prehistoric Germanic base which denoted ‘touch lightly’ – a sense which survived into English (‘That good horse blessed he then, and lovingly struck its mane’, Sir Ferumbras 1380). The more violent modern sense ‘hit hard’ …

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  • 22Strike Witches — Japanese light novel cover of Strike Witches volume 1 ストライクウィッチーズ Genre Military science fiction …

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  • 23Strike series — Strike is the common name of a series of video games created by Mike Posehn, John Patrick Manley and Tony Barnes released between 1991 and 1997 by Electronic Arts for a number of video game systems. The games are multi directional shooters shown… …

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  • 24strike — 1 vb struck, struck, also, strick·en, strik·ing vi 1: to remove or delete something 2: to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands vt 1: to remove or delete from a legal document a …

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  • 25strike — [strīk] vt. struck, struck or occas. (but for vt. 11 commonly and for vt. 8 & 15 usually) stricken, striking, [ME striken, to proceed, flow, strike with rod or sword < OE strican, to go, proceed, advance, akin to Ger streichen < IE * streig …

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  • 26Strike — Strike, v. t. [imp. {Struck}; p. p. {Struck}, {Stricken}({Stroock}, {Strucken}, Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Striking}. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. str[=i]can to go, proceed,… …

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  • 27Strike — may refer to:Refusal to work or perform* Strike action, also known as a Walkout, a work stoppage by a corporation or public institution * General strike, a strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country *Church… …

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  • 28Strike Up the Band (song) — Strike Up The Band is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was written for the 1927 musical Strike Up the Band , where it formed part of a satire on war and militaristic music. Although the musical was not… …

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  • 29Strike Out — Strike Out, (1969 1998), North American Harness racing champion Strike Out was born in 1969 at Castleton Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and is by Bret Hanover out of the mare Golden Miss.He was purchased at a yearling auction for $15,000 by Beejay… …

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  • 30Strike up the Band (musical) — Strike Up the Band had no relation to the stage production.LibrettoThe original book by Kaufman centered on Horace J. Fletcher, a Babbitt like cheese tycoon who tries to maintain his monopoly on the American market by convincing the United States …

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