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Woodward

[wood-werd]

noun

  1. C(omer) Vann, 1908–99, U.S. historian.

  2. Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel Prize 1965.

  3. a town in northwestern Oklahoma.



Woodward

/ ˈʊə /

noun

  1. Sir Clive . born 1956, English Rugby Union player and subsequently (1997–2004) coach of the England team that won the Rugby World Cup in 2003.

  2. R ( obert ) B ( urns ). 1917–79, US chemist. For his work on the synthesis of quinine, strychnine, cholesterol, and other organic compounds he won the Nobel prize for chemistry 1965

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Woodward and Leicester won at Welford Road last month, but Sale, 10 points up with half an hour to go, were left ruing indiscipline that let the hosts back into that game.

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The goal Woodward laid out at the beginning of the year has suddenly become much more realistic now.

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Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?

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It aims to show, says director Frank H. Woodward, Gurr’s curiosity and fearlessness; for instance, he was the first man down an unfinished Matterhorn track.

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Dodgers first base coach Chris Woodward returns to Globe Life Field this weekend for the first time since being fired as manager of the Rangers — a year before they won the World Series.

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