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'''Kaffirs'''<br />
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'''Katie bar the door'''<br />
 
'''Katie bar the door'''<br />
 
8; The phrase "Katie bar the door!" (also as "Katie bar the gate!"; sometimes written as Katy) is a very American exclamation, more common in the South than elsewhere, meaning that disaster impends—“watch out”, “get ready for trouble” or “a desperate situation is at hand”. [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kat1.htm From WorldWideWords.org]
 
8; The phrase "Katie bar the door!" (also as "Katie bar the gate!"; sometimes written as Katy) is a very American exclamation, more common in the South than elsewhere, meaning that disaster impends—“watch out”, “get ready for trouble” or “a desperate situation is at hand”. [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kat1.htm From WorldWideWords.org]
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'''Khartoum'''<br />
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'''Kh&auml;utsch, Max'''<br />
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47; a captain in the Trabants, and field chief of K&K Special Security, who had "proven himself useful at home as an assassin"
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'''Kimura, Mr.'''<br />
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'''Klu Klux Klan ("KKK")'''<br />
 
'''Klu Klux Klan ("KKK")'''<br />
7; the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klu_Klux_Klan Wikipedia entry]
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7; the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism; 178; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klu_Klux_Klan Wikipedia entry]
  
 
'''Keeley Cure:''' Devised by Leslie Keeley, this was a proprietary system of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits. The Keeley Cure was a forerunner of certain measures adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Relying heavily on injections of Bichloride of Gold (a chemical impossibility), it was so well-known in its day that several popular songs, such as an Irish comic song, entitled "The Keeley Cure," parodied it unmercifully. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Keeley More on Wikipedia]
 
'''Keeley Cure:''' Devised by Leslie Keeley, this was a proprietary system of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits. The Keeley Cure was a forerunner of certain measures adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Relying heavily on injections of Bichloride of Gold (a chemical impossibility), it was so well-known in its day that several popular songs, such as an Irish comic song, entitled "The Keeley Cure," parodied it unmercifully. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Keeley More on Wikipedia]
  
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'''Kepler'''<br />
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'''Kieselguhr Kid'''<br />
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171; "notorious dynamiter of the San Juans"
 
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Revision as of 06:38, 18 October 2006

Kaffirs
169;

Katie bar the door
8; The phrase "Katie bar the door!" (also as "Katie bar the gate!"; sometimes written as Katy) is a very American exclamation, more common in the South than elsewhere, meaning that disaster impends—“watch out”, “get ready for trouble” or “a desperate situation is at hand”. From WorldWideWords.org

Khartoum
29;

Khäutsch, Max
47; a captain in the Trabants, and field chief of K&K Special Security, who had "proven himself useful at home as an assassin"

Kimura, Mr.
29;

Klu Klux Klan ("KKK")
7; the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism; 178; Wikipedia entry

Keeley Cure: Devised by Leslie Keeley, this was a proprietary system of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits. The Keeley Cure was a forerunner of certain measures adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous. Relying heavily on injections of Bichloride of Gold (a chemical impossibility), it was so well-known in its day that several popular songs, such as an Irish comic song, entitled "The Keeley Cure," parodied it unmercifully. More on Wikipedia

Kepler
115;

Kieselguhr Kid
171; "notorious dynamiter of the San Juans"

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