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- proper noun An
English surname derived from anickname for a short person. - proper noun A town in
Hampshire , close toSouthampton .
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Examples
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BASSETT -- Bassett won behind 19 points from Julia Scales.
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Angela Bassett is an outstanding actress and I think adds the the credibility that this movie isn't just going to be a cranked out Hollywood superhero flick like Ghost Rider or Fantastic Four.
Angela Bassett and Gattlin Griffith Join Green Lantern | /Film 2010
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Many pictures, unrelated, came and went in Bassett's mind as he reviewed that period of his terrible wanderings.
THE RED ONE 2010
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But seared deepest of all in Bassett's brain, was the dank and noisome jungle.
THE RED ONE 2010
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Ngurn explained, as he drew forth from the filthy matting and placed in Bassett's hands an indubitable white man's head.
THE RED ONE 2010
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He asks Ngurn to carry him to the Red One so that he can look upon it and there die and Bassett is carried to the pit on a litter.
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Bassett is lost in an eldritch place where it was always twilight.
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(This is an Anglo-Saxon, an Aryan, yacht — no blacks, Indians, Orientals or Mexicans are in Bassett's scheme of happiness and laughter.)
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Angela Bassett is 50 which makes her a great grandmother in some African American communities.
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Bassett is the second Goss aide to be linked to the parties, in addition to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo.
Think Progress » BREAKING: CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns 2006
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