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goss

(ɡɒs)
vb (intr)
dialect English to spit

goss

(ɡɒs)
n
informal short for gossip
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Translations

goss

n (Brit inf: = gossip) → Klatsch m (inf); have you heard the latest goss?weißt du schon das Neueste?
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His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black soldiers, following the example of their white officer, encouraged with the sharp points of bayonets and the metal-shod butts of rifles.
''This morning Director Porter Goss offered his resignation as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency; I've accepted it,'' Bush said.
Michelle survived in agony for up to an hour after the attack at her home in Jersey, while Goss fled to France.He gave himself up two days later.
Goss is an internationally recognized teacher lecturer, author and editor She is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Frances Clark Center for Keyboard Pedagogy and co-founder of The New School for Music Study Goss also is co-author ant editor of the Frances Clark Library for Piano Students.
Goss joined Beta LaserMike in February 1995, and worked as the Southeast sales engineer until 1998.
Goss is doing at the Central Intelligence Agency is starting to seem less like reform and more like a political purge.
The new working relationship establishes Flint Ink as the exclusive agent for Goss newspaper presses, parts and services in the Caribbean, South and Central America, with the exceptions of Brazil, Mexico, English speaking islands of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago.
'He is well prepared for this mission,' the president said of Goss, chairman of the House intelligence committee who was an Army intelligence operative before joining the CIA in the 1960s.
Founded in 1922 by Stanley Goss, the builder has sold more than 3000 machines to customers around the world.
Goss, 41, best known for his ditched attempt to sail catamaran Team Philips around the world, will team up with polar explorer Alan Chambers.