(n.) A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.
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Tribble
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(n.) A frame on which paper is dried.
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(1) It didn’t exist in Jan 1961.” Conrad Tribble (@conradtribble) Just made first phone call to State Dept.
(2) His soul-mate (and fourth wife), talented musician and performer Lisi Tribble, encouraged Ken's musical escapades; he once turned up at our barn party where everyone had been invited to perform a musical number and solemnly announced that he was going to rap.
(3) Conrad Tribble, the deputy chief of mission for the US in Havana, tweeted: “Just made first phone call to State Dept Ops Center from United States Embassy Havana ever.
(4) At the meeting were a team of senior Apple executives, including senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams, vice president of software technology, Bud Tribble, and vice president of worldwide government affairs, Cathy Novelli.
(5) He was married four times: in 1956 to Shirley Kingdom, with whom he had five children; in 1983 to Vivian Jolly, with whom he had two children; in 1992 to Hetty Baynes, with whom he had one son; and in 2001, to Elise Tribble.
(6) One of those working on the Mac was Bud Tribble, who spotted early how Jobs "has the ability to make people around him believe in his perception of reality.