COMPLAINT
COMPLAINT
While hunting deer in the Tehema Wildlife Area near Red Bluff in northern California, Jay Rathman climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gor...
COMPLEX
COMPLEX
Pages in 1891 basketball rule book: 2. Pages in current basketball rule book: 114.
Quoted in U.S. News and World Report, November 25...
COMPLIMENTS
COMPLIMENTS
The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of ...
COMPOSURE
COMPOSURE
Actress Carol Burnett got out of a cab one day and caught her coat in the door. The driver was unaware of her plight and slowly began to edge ou...
COMPREHENSIVE
COMPREHENSIVE
Original title of Noah Webster's first spelling book was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Comprising an Easy, Concise,...
COMPROMISE
COMPROMISE
The Little Sisters of the Poor were going from door to door in a French city, soliciting alms for old people. One nun called at the house of a ...
CONCEITED
CONCEITED
Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism -- but proved herself capabl...
CONCENTRATION
CONCENTRATION
It was in 1873, in Dublin that D.L. Moody heard British evangelist Henry Varley utter those life changing words: "The world has yet to see w...
CONCERN
CONCERN
Dwight Morrow, the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, once held a dinner party to which Calvin Coolidge had been invited. After Coolidge left, Morro...
CONCISE
CONCISE
Original title of Noah Webster's first spelling book was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Comprising an Easy, Concise, and S...
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION
John was driving home late one night when he picked up a hitchhiker. As they rode along, he began to be suspicious of his passenger. John check...
CONDUCT
CONDUCT
When Queen Victoria was a child, she didn't know she was in line for the throne of England. Her instructors, trying to prepare her for the fu...
CONFESSION
CONFESSION
In the washroom of his London club, British newspaper publisher and politician William Beverbrook happened to meet Edward Heath, then a young m...
CONFIDENCE
CONFIDENCE
John McKay, of the NFL, tells a story illustrating the supreme confidence of University of Alabama football coach Bear Bryant: "We were out sho...
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
The Duke of Wellington is best remembered as the general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. During his earlier service in India, Well...
CONFLICT
CONFLICT
Years ago, a large statue of Christ was erected high in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile. Called "Christ of the Andes," the st...
CONFORMITY
CONFORMITY
Athanasius, early bishop of Alexandria, stoutly opposed the teachings of Arius, who declared that Christ was not the eternal Son of God, but a ...
CONFRONTATION
CONFRONTATION
Don Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins, was talking to a reporter about a player's mistake in practice. He said, "We never let an error...
CONFUSION
CONFUSION
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
H. Truman.
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CONQUER
CONQUER
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