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dawk
/dɔːk/
noun 4verb 3
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1ADJ.
slight
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verb
1
To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
2
To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
3
To dig up weeds.
noun
1
A hollow or crack in timber.
THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould
noun
1
A person who advocates neither an aggressive nor a conciliatory political attitude (especially in foreign policy).
In the analysis that follows, I shall explore the foreign policy views of three distinct factions within the Chinese elite: “hawks, doves, and dawks.” In my view, the “dawks,” “centrists,” or more precisely, Maoists, have won.
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THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould
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In the analysis that follows, I shall explore the foreign policy views of three distinct factions within the Chinese elite: “hawks, doves, and dawks.” In my view, the “dawks,” “centrists,” or more pre
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During the mutiny of 1857–58, when several young surgeons had arrived in India, whose services were urgently needed at the front, it is said that the Head of the Department to which they had reported
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