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- proper noun The only named wind in the British Isles. Blows westward form the Pennine fells over Cumbria and is often accompanied by a line of clouds on top of the hills called the Helm Bar.
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Examples
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Helm is among the NHL's fastest players, and he was a contributor during last season's playoffs and then couldn't make the team this season.
Do trade deadline deals work, plus 11 other key questions 2009
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Center Darren Helm is always just one stride away from a breakaway.
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Now Helm is back with the Red Wings, more confident, quicker off the start and perhaps ready to claim the title as the NHL's fastest forward.
Red Wings' success built on patience, scouting, planning 2009
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And I guess Zach Helm is a promising young writer ...
"Little did he know" Roger Sutton 2007
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Helm scorns amateurs, women who wear pants, sentimentalists (not that Helm is entirely free of sentiment, however), and incompetence.
Archive 2007-04-08 Bill Crider 2007
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Helm is to beat up a woman (one of Mac's agents), and make it look good to the opposition.
Archive 2007-04-08 Bill Crider 2007
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“The description was provided by the mother to a sketch artist from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation,” Kristin Helm, the bureau’s spokesperson, told CNN.
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Two other sci-fi in jokes – Brigitte lives on the 138th floor because I dropped the first 1 from the sci-fi movie, THX-1138 and Brigitte Helm is the name of the actress who played the robot in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.
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Yet the impact of his rasp, and all the work that went into every phrase Helm tried to get out, was incredible, and the crowd roared its appreciation when he'd finished.
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Darren Helm, which is why those negotiations have stalled.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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