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Desmond

An Irish surname, anglicised from Ó Deasmhumhnaigh " a man from South Munster". A en given name; popular in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.

desmond

(British, rhyming, _, slang) A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree.

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Desmond's well out of it in Michigan.
You're Norma Desmond.
Say, she's quite a character that Norma Desmond.
Because they want to see me - me, Norma Desmond.
The great Norma Desmond.
The Norma Desmond Follies.
I'm bringing Norma Desmond.
Norma Desmond.
Why, if it isn't Miss Desmond!
How've you been, Miss Desmond?
Sure, Miss Desmond. Come on.
Miss Desmond can.
You're right, Miss Desmond.
Norma Desmond's coming to see Mr DeMille.
Desmond steps out of the batter's box.
Desmond swings, he hits it right through, it's a hit.
Throw in second, trying to get Desmond.
You're Norma Desmond!
Say, she's quite a character, that Norma Desmond.
Because they want to see me. Me! Norma Desmond.
Plain crazy when it came to that one subject, her celluloid self, the great Norma Desmond.
I'm bringing Norma Desmond. Norma who?
Norma Desmond!
Yeah? Why, if it isn't Miss Desmond.
How have you been, Miss Desmond?
Sure, Miss Desmond.
Norma Desmond?

News and current affairs

Indeed, Havel and a previous laureate, Desmond Tutu, were consistent advocates of awarding the prize to him.
Among them were two recent Cambridge graduates, William Astbury and John Desmond Bernal, who became interested in the problem of protein structure--Astbury as a result of being asked by Bragg to provide X-ray diagrams of wool and silk.
He chose 17, appointing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a man widely acknowledged as South Africa's moral conscience, to chair the Commission.

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