United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery

Usage examples of douglas.

Possibly, with the exception of the historic debates two years earlier, between Lincoln and Douglas, the country has known no abler discussion of great questions.

His accommodationist, political attitude to Court rulings was in sharp contrast to the methods of Douglas and Black, who had little interest in voting against their deeply held principles merely to end up on the winning side.

Command Center Incirlik Air Base Adana, Turkey Tuesday, 7 March 1995 0300 Hours, Local General Harris walked into the ready room adjacent to his command center just as Lieutenant Douglas Hill, the assistant operations officer, was completing a pre-flight briefing.

Douglas, a border town across from Agua Prieta, and they would reach the cabin the next morning.

Douglas, whom Black believed was the most brilliant man he had ever met, drove the Alabamian crazy with his laziness.

It was then announced, to the shock of both the chief justice and Douglas, that Blackmun, because of his concerns for the doctors, would vote to invalidate the antiabortion laws.

There are those who denounce us openly to their friends, and yet whisper to us softly that Senator Douglas is the aptest instrument there is with which to effect that object.

And within one minute the Arg helicopters were on them again, streaking in low over the grass, both firing now, and Douglas Jarvis flung himself over Rick Hunter to take the impact of the bullets himself.

I am interested in Charlotte Douglas only insofar as she passed through Boca Grande, only insofar as the meaning of that sojourn continues to chide me.

Charlotte Douglas was the only person on the list ever to enter Boca Grande.

Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.

West had told the local authority that his brother Douglas would be moving into a small flat in Clarence Road, Cheltenham, with his wife to live with him and provide a permanent home for the children.

Roger climbs up to carry more rope to Marie and Douglas and Hannah and Ginger.

Kate The box 1 1 1 Anna quinaten Douglas Wiggins and a clothbound copy of The Secret Garden and a leatherbound edition of Heidi that she had been given one Christmas.

He, Douglas Carleton, clubman turned gangster, was the man behind the plot to end the career of The Shadow!