Image: GizmodoImpressed with the new spit and polish of Firefox Quantum?
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Farewill is not the first startup hoping to give planning for death a bit of a spit and polish.
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But it'll probably get another round of spit and polish prior to tonight's update from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
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"Make America Great Again!" features spit-and-polish big-band arrangements played with jostling flair, from the rhythm section up.
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If Colonel Iulo was a model of spit-and-polish Marine Corps decorum, there were also attendees in red Marine Corps satin bowling jackets.
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It's not an ugly app by any means, but what it lacks in spit and polish it makes up for with an abundance of helpful features.
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With far fewer troops deployed in combat operations now, though, the Army has signaled that it wants to get back to the old spit and polish.
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He knew he was being shown a part of the country that had more spit and polish for foreigners, but even so it was eerily spotless, he said.
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Appearing on the scene as part of the post-DayZ craze for survival sims, the title from Endnight Games had a lot of interesting ideas but no spit and polish.
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But to glance at it, you'd be convinced this was a current game, rather than a dusty gem of the previous gen given a generous glob of spit and polish.
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Often a lint-free cloth, alcohol or distilled water (don't use tap water), and a can of compressed air are all the tools you need to give your gadget a bit of spit and polish.
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For over 20 years, New York's political leadership have tried to give the transit hub, which services 10 million passengers a year and is the nation's busiest, a little spit and polish, but to no avail.
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A "spit and polish" son of a corporate executive, as he described himself, he graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts as a psychology major in 21997 and studied for a master's degree in the subject at Wesleyan, only to flunk the oral exam.
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They are mostly big and barnlike — the Gershwin, the Minskoff, the Marquis — or else they are oddly shaped, like the shoebox Lunt-Fontanne, or out of the way, like the Nederlander on West 41st Street, and the company was not always known to give them the spit-and-polish care that the Shuberts lavished on the showcase theaters on and around West 45th Street.
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Retrieved on 3 February 2009 The Clash,Savage, Jon. "Spit and polish". The Guardian. 24 September 1999.
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He recorded his first album as a leader in 1992 with the New York Big Band, which was active into the late 2000s.Cheerful Syncopation, Served with Spit-and-Polish Precision. New York Times, July 4, 2007.
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Brown p.242Christensen p.265 As an officer, Duke's way of "gently ordering" soldiers under his command allowed him to have friendly relations with his men. He loved fighting, was steadfast during difficult moments in conflicts, and was described as a "spit-and-polish" officer.
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Described by Paul as "essentially an American-International teenybopper pic with a lot more spit and polish", it was 1973's third-biggest film and, likewise, by far the highest-earning teen- themed movie yet made.Paul (1994), p. 92. Even more historically significant movies with B themes and A-level financial backing followed in their wake.
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Dad's Army by John Burke, Hodder, 1971. . A novelisation of the film. Dad's Army Cartoon Book, Piccolo, 1973. . This contains six comic stories written by R.A.G Clarke and drawn by Bill Titcombe (in black and white) : Operation Spycatcher, Dad's Army Goes to Sea, Operation Blunderbuss, Dad's Army in the Red, Operation Spit-and-Polish, Sure-fire Mainwaring!.
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He had a flair for marketing and in 1922 rode a Brough Superior SS80 which he called Spit and Polish at Brooklands. managing an unofficial lap. Brough Superior riders view 3,048 motorcycles of 19 models were made in 21 years of production. Most were custom built to customers' requirements and rarely were any two of the same configuration.
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164 Nicholas' biographer Nicholas V. Riasanovsky said that he displayed determination, singleness of purpose, and an iron will, along with a powerful sense of duty and a dedication to very hard work. He saw himself as a soldier—a junior officer totally consumed by spit and polish. A handsome man, he was highly nervous and aggressive. Trained as an engineer, he was a stickler for minute detail.
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In Series 3, Judee has started up a beauty salon with Charlie Hull called "Spit and Polish". The customers believe her to be giving the massages, when it is in fact Charlie. During this time, Judee develops a crush on Charlie. When people start demanding "extras", Charlie struggles with homosexuality when he finds himself attracted to Tony, the man with whom his wife, Stella, has had an affair.
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"The car holds the road well at any speed and the springing is good. The coachwork is comfortable enough but the open body is rather ugly". Summing up the motoring correspondent suggested that "if pains were taken to damp out engine vibration and a slightly higher price set which would allow more 'spit and polish'...Austin will do a lasting service to the country and to their shareholders".
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Cassius Dio praised Hadrian's emphasis on "spit and polish" as cause for the generally peaceful character of his reign.Opper, p. 85 Fronto expressed other opinions on the subject. In his view, Hadrian preferred war games to actual war, and enjoyed "giving eloquent speeches to the armies" – like the inscribed series of addresses he made while on an inspection tour, during 128, at the new headquarters of Legio III Augusta in LambaesisBirley, Restless Emperor, pp.
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J. Paul Newsome, an analyst with CIBC Oppenheimer, said: "He's not the spit-and-polish executive many people expected. He's rough on the edges. But Citibank knows the bank as an institution is in trouble—it can't get away anymore with passive selling—and Plumeri has all the passion to throw a glass of cold water on the bank." Plumeri boosted the unit's earnings from $108 million to $415 million in one year, an increase of nearly 300%.
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The city's newspaper, the Telegraph & Argus, published a souvenir issue for the day, entitled "Spit and Polish for the Parade Ground". It detailed the safety work which would be carried out as a result of the club's promotion, admitting the ground was "inadequate in so many ways for modern requirements". Steel was to be installed in the roof, and the wooden terracing was to be replaced with concrete. The work was expected to cost £400,000 (£ million today).
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The Irish Times gave it a mostly negative review, stating: "The problem is that Zimmerman obviously didn't care too much about the final outcome to bother his hoop on the spit and polish process. Maybe W:/2017Album/ will be better." scoring it 2/5 stars. Jon Falcone from Drowned In Sound gave it an overwhelmingly negative review, noting that "nothing goes anywhere, and yet every song is so long. It's painful" awarding it only 1/10.
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It was the biggest movie of the year and by far the highest-earning horror movie yet made. On behalf of its genre, Universal's American Graffiti did something similar. Released when writer-director George Lucas was twenty- nine years old, it is described by Paul as "essentially an American- International teenybopper pic with a lot more spit and polish"—a combination that made it the third biggest movie of 1973 and, likewise, by far the highest-earning teen-themed movie yet made.Paul (1994), p. 92.
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Regimental flags of 41st Ohio Infantry The 41st Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment served in the Western Theatre for the entire war, under such well- known generals as Grant and Sherman. It fought in many battles over the course of four years, suffering more than 300 casualties. It earned a reputation among the hardscrabble Western units for its spit and polish, and was often held as an example of good soldiering.
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Her 4th album of original material, No Way There From Here, was released in the UK in September 2013, on Shoeshine/ Spit and Polish Records. The release preceded a tour of the UK. Cantrell's music has been celebrated in the press including features in The New York Times. In recent years, she has been a contributor to The New York Times and VanityFair.com. In August 2017, Cantrell began hosting "Dark Horse Radio", a weekly 30-minute program on SiriusXM featuring the music of George Harrison.
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He later moved on to become a print and electronic journalist, specializing in the arts. Ronge is probably best known for his Spit and Polish column in the Sunday Times (which has been running for more than fifteen years), his movie reviews for the same newspaper, and his Sunday evening show on Radio 702. After writing for the Sunday Times for 27 years he wrote his last column on 23 February 2014. In 2015 the Sunday Times renamed its prize for South African literature to the Barry Ronge Fiction Prize.
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George Brough used a specially-tuned SS80 he nicknamed 'Spit and Polish' (so called because of the immaculate finish he always maintained) to become the first sidevalver to lap the Brooklands track at over . The same motorcycle went on to win 51 out of 52 races. The only time it failed to win was due to a puncture. Brough became famous as a competition rider and only retired from racing following a serious crash which left him recovering for eight months in hospital receiving skin grafts, as he never wore protective clothing.
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Following the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Diamond shipped out to Guadalcanal with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, arriving at the beaches August 7, 1942. He was then 52 years old. Though not a "spit-and-polish" Marine, Diamond proved himself an expert with both 60- and 81-mm mortars, his accurate fire being credited as the turning point of many battles on Guadalcanal. Among the many fables concerning his Guadalcanal service is the tale that he lobbed a mortar shell down the smoke stack of an off-shore Japanese cruiser.
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There is no other Goetic spirit who can tell you with such exactitude what you ought to either ditch or apply ample spit and polish in order to better sell yourself to potential employers, friends or lovers than Clauneck. Clauneck is conjured with regularity to promote health, wealth and wellbeing. Clauneck falls under the planet Mercury with Virgo as his zodiac sign (27°), which stands for extremity. Clauneck is a day demon, there is no seal of Clauneck because Clauneck is not one of the 72 demons summoned by King Solomon.
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Soon after arrival in Europe, the Russo-Turkish War broke out, and Schroeter and his fellow ship mates were sent to Salonika, on the Greek coast, and thence to Smyrna. The duty was tedious and boring and discipline was maintained through a strict training regime. Close order drills, abandon ship drills, fire drills, repel boarder drills and cleaning and repairs occupied most of Schroeter's time over the next ten months. "Spit and polish" was often the mantra aboard such US Navy ships. USS Franklin In February 1878, the Alliance became Rear Admiral William E. Le Roy's flagship.
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1940 photo of HMS Javelin showing stern entirely blown off Javelin participated in the Operation Ironclad assault on Madagascar in May 1942. She participated in the failed Operation Vigorous attempt to deliver a supply convoy to Malta, in June 1942. Javelin along with destroyed a flotilla of Italian small ships on the night of 19 January 1943. Javelin record was marred on 17 October 1945 whilst off Rhodes by an outbreak of indiscipline (a refusal to work by “Hostilities Only” ratings following resentment over a return to pre-war spit-and-polish): one leading rating was charged with mutiny, and several ratings were subsequently court-martialled, though sentences were reduced as the facts became known.
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The real ordeal will then start: for four long months, the recruits Bats will endure forced marches, physical exercises, shooting sessions and inspections — all this barracked by the screams of their eagle-eyed instructors. The South African paratroop instructors, like their British counterparts, enforce strict discipline. For example, trainees always take their grooming kit along with them on marches and at dawn, when back at the base with aching bones, devote whatever little time is left they have to rest to 'spit and polish'. Those who are accepted are then transferred to 1 Para, where they first complete the normal three-month basic training course, with some differences: PT three times a day, no walking in camp under any circumstances and a run to end each day.
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Colonel MacDonald in Egypt Historian Ronald Hyam comments that "Ceylon furnished MacDonald with a lethal combination of a military command which was inactive and uninteresting, and a community of boys who were interesting and very active."Ronald Hyam, "Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience" (Manchester University Press, 1990) pp.33–34 He ruffled the feathers of the civilians by forcing the unkempt and ill-disciplined local militia, most of them the sons of British planters, to show more spit and polish; he deeply offended the Governor, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, when he yelled at him to get off the parade ground; and compounded the process of alienation by declining the social invitations of the British community and consorting instead with the locals.Robert F. Aldrich, "Colonialism and Homosexuality" (Routledge, 2003), p.
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Maude, p. 54 He was not a popular brigadier; the London volunteers particularly objected to his strict views on cleanliness, a story circulated that he had ordered front-line trenches to be swept out with brooms. He was nicknamed "Spit and Polish" by the infantry as a result of his obsession with appearances, alongside his earlier nickname of "Bluebell", which may have been a reference to a brand of polish. He left the 140th Brigade in early July 1916, promoted to command 39th Division.Maude, p. 60 He commanded it during the later phases of the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Pilckem.The British Army in the Great War: The 39th Division His record with the division was not well received by his superiors; Claud Jacob of II Corps described him as "obstinate and mulish" during the Battle of the Somme, whilst Ivor Maxse of XVIII Corps noted he had "little or no conception of training methods", and "few ideas" regarding tactical operations; his only merit was perceived to be his rigorous approach to discipline.Robbins, p.
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