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  • Like his boss, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vickers is a holdover from the Bush administration.

    Obama nominates Vickers for DOD intelligence post Craig Whitlock 2010

  • And that young scalawag of a Joe Vickers is editing the Journal in his absence.

    Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

  • The reason there are no "Vickers" -- er, Vicars -- in the USA is because we have no Church of England.

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2009

  • The reason there are no "Vickers" -- er, Vicars -- in the USA is because we have no Church of England.

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2009

  • Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith, retells the myth of Iphis, one of Ovid's metamorphosis; Where Tree Roads Meet by Sally Vickers, is about the myth of Oedipus; and Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong, is based on the Chinese myth of Meng Jiangnu and the Great Wall.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith, retells the myth of Iphis, one of Ovid's metamorphosis; Where Tree Roads Meet by Sally Vickers, is about the myth of Oedipus; and Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong, is based on the Chinese myth of Meng Jiangnu and the Great Wall.

    Weight by Jeanette Winterson 2007

  • One interesting footnote: one of Vickers’ old CSBA colleagues is Steve Kosiak — they’ve even collaborated on some reports over the years — and now Kosiak is head of defense programs for that very same Office of Management and Budget, so that might help explain Vickers’ inclusion in the process.

    Far From The Beaten Path | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • The 25th Battery of Field Artillery is equipped with four guns, which are known as the Vickers-Maxim 75 mm. quick firing mountain guns.

    The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles John J. Reidy

  • Jack laughed noisily, and called Vickers "a silly old loony".

    Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Florence Coombe

  • Messrs. Vickers received orders for their gun-carrying two-seater pusher aeroplane known as the Vickers fighter.

    The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

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