townshend in English

noun

family name; Pete Townshend (born 1945), British rock and roll musician, singer and songwriter for the rock band "The Who"

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1. Townshend was said to be quietly delighted to still inspire such vitriol.

2. King, Joan Jett, The Edge, and Pete Townshend has filed for Bankruptcy

3. When Townshend halted at Kut, Goltz laid siege to the British position (see the Siege of Kut).

4. 5 Townshend may not relish a role as elder custodian of the nation s youth, but it suits him.

5. Bargain (song) " Bargain " is a song written by Pete Townshend that was first released by the Who on their 1971 album Who's Next

6. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer William Dowdeswell, for example, warned Lord North that the Americans would not accept the tea if the Townshend duty remained.

7. Ryan Reed of Paste regarded her voice as "a raspy, aged-beyond-its-years thing of full-blooded beauty," while MSN Music's Tom Townshend declared her "the finest singer of generation."

8. In October 1716, Townshend's colleague, James Stanhope afterwards 1st Earl Stanhope, accompanied the king on his visit to Hanover, and while there he was seduced from his allegiance to his fellow ministers by Sunderland, George being led to believe that Townshend and his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Walpole, were caballing with the Prince of Wales, their intention being that the prince should supplant his father on the throne.