late unpleasantness

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late unpleasantness

Euph. the U.S. Civil War. (Old.) The town courthouse was burned in the late unpleasantness. Many of my ancestors lost their lives in the late unpleasantness.

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It is one of those days during the late unpleasantness, sometimes called World War II. Happy days at Cardiff Docks by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) During the late unpleasantness in Iraq, there was nary a nationally known politician who spoke against the war. It came from Hollywood. (Culture) by Collum, Danny Duncan / Sojourners A new book, Leadership Lessons From the Civil War, uses examples gleaned from what hyperpolite Southerners called The Late Unpleasantness to teach modern managers the best way to crush the competition. Raise your sights by Business North Carolina			lash into lash out lash to lash together lashing last last but not least last call last for last laugh last out last straw last will and testament last word last-ditch last-ditch effort last-gasp latch latch on latch onto latch string is always out late late bloomer late in life late in the day late unpleasantness later latest lather lather up laugh laugh about laugh all the way to the bank Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone laugh at laugh away laugh away at laugh down laugh head off laugh in face laugh like a drain laugh off laugh off the stage laugh oneself out of laugh oneself silly laugh out of laugh out of court laugh out of the other side of face and laugh out of the other ... laugh up sleeve laugh with laugh your head off			late sleep Late Spring Nitrate Test Late Stage Growth Obesity Late star Late Start late stent thrombosis Late stone age Late stone age late successional assessment area Late Successional/Old Growth Late SV40 Factor Late syphilis Late syphilis Late syphilis late systole late systolic murmur Late tape Late Tapes Late term abortion Late Thursday Morning late time Late to Test Late to the Party Late trading Late Transition Metal Catalyst Late Triassic Late Triassic Late Twentieth-Century Developments Late Twentieth-Century Developments Late Twentieth-Century Developments late unpleasantness Late Victorian architecture late wood Late Xenograft Rejection Late, Great Planet Earth late-blooming Late-Bottled Non-Vintage Late-Branch Multi-Path Interference Regenerator Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Late-Day Trading Late-Deafened Adults Late-Developing Country late-flowering late-lamented Late-Life Mood Disorder Late-Life Psychotic Depression late-night late-night hour Late-Old Structure Late-Onset Adrenal Hyperplasia Late-Onset Central Hypoventilation Syndrome Late-Onset Corneal Haze late-onset diabetes Late-Onset Group B Streptococcal Late-onset Idiopathic Scoliosis

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