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: 2 years ago a detective tracy heath came to my house and told me to go and get custody of my grandchildren travis bowling and september shobe because he was taking them away from their mom toni bowling now last name whipple for neglect and behavior going on in front of the kids.
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He had a whipple procedure, which successfully removed the tumor.
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Comments my husband put in 26 yr. in the airforce and passed away in 1998. i can hardly live on only ss. i am 71yrs. old and rent a bedroom out andneed help as i've had a3rd whipple done and this doesn't help. will there be any changes at all in time to help us out with some o his retirement as i have nothing. thank you jeanne leagon
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Monday, April 20 2009 end of an era. but watch out for them layoffs. blood on 101 from whipple to marsh. this will be ugly.
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They are screwing the public and the media cares not an iota! bob whipple
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All I needed was a lute and a whipple -- although apparently the Crusaders left all their ladies home and merely consorted with the local girls.
The Tour-Bus Diaries: Visiting Jim Crow in his Bethlehem Condo 2006
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Next to the whipple-tree they with care by the neatly kept traces140
Polyhymnia 1909
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Next to the whipple-tree they with care by the neatly kept traces
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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A knowledge of the first principles of mechanics, or, in the absence of this, an ordinary degree of active, available common sense, would teach the proper use of such a whipple-tree.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
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"And how did you harness the horses to the whipple-tree?" inquired the more intelligent farmer.
Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Ira Mayhew 1854
bilby commented on the word whipple
"On the shore, beside the skidway, they kept a horse collar and a set of harnesses and a whipple tree and a chain."
- 'No Great Mischief', Alistair MacLeod.
February 19, 2008
seanahan commented on the word whipple
Also a medical procedure, See wikipedia
February 20, 2008
adoarns commented on the word whipple
The Whipple procedure during medical school was either the thing you couldn't believe you got to assist on, or the thing you couldn't believe you had to assist on.
For a surgery junkie, it's great. It's one of the most intense re-plumbing jobs commonly done. For those of us who just wanted to pass surgery and be done, it was an eight-hour torture session. On your feet, masked, capped, and gowned, holding some stupid retractor or another until the early evening.
February 20, 2008