truculent
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Truculent Kuomintang fundamentalists seized the initiative in some of the subcommittees set up to study the draft constitution.
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Aboard was her regular complement of six officers, 55 men, plus 18 civilian Navy yard technicians who had been checking up on recent repairs to the Truculent.
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Of the 79 aboard the Truculent only 15 had been saved.
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His Majesty's Submarine Truculent was headed up the Thames estuary for the Chatham Naval Base, after a diving test cruise in the North Sea.
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When a Truculent Nero, a Devil of a Man, was turned in upon the World, it was said, in 1 Pet.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
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