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(ō′ĭnz), James Cleveland Known as "Jesse." 1913-1980.

American track star. He won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Owens, an African American, thwarted Hitler's desire to use the games as evidence of Aryan superiority.

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Owens

(ˈəʊɪnz)

(Biography) Jesse, real name John Cleveland Owens. 1913–80, US Black athlete: won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics (1936)

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Owens - United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler (1913-1980)

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Referee Nigel Owens was at the centre of a bizarre moment during Saturday's PRO14 quarter-final play-off match between Munster and Benetton.

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Owens, of Phelps, was the finance director at Finger Lakes Conveyors Inc., in Waterloo, Seneca County, from 2003 until 2017, when the owner of the company, Michael Gelder, discovered discrepancies in the company's finances.

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"You can't cry about spilled milk." Those words of advice from his father have carried Henry Owens through the most difficult nine months of his life.

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" Two New Hampshire police officers, Randy Dyer ('Officer Dyer') and Keith Lee ('Officer Lee'), were instructed to visit [defendant Gregory] Owens's residence in the town of Londonderry to verify the presence of his two vehicles.

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Ross Owens car had ended up on its roof after it swerved and hit Lynne Huckerby's car near Braeval on the A81 Glasgow to Callander Road on December 21 last year.

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Five Supreme Court justices have ruled that Tini Owens must stay married to Hugh Owens.

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Tini Owens had told the Supreme Court that her 40-year marriage to Hugh Owens, 80, was "loveless" and "broken down" and she said she wanted a divorce.