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Himes

American  
[hahymz] / haɪmz /

noun

  1. Chester (Bomar) 1909–84, U.S. novelist.


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Himes added: "This is part of the inevitable cost of a conflict. Even the best military doesn't operate without accidents and that's what appeared to have occurred here."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

"Nancy's the same age as my mum, the same height as my mum, and she's got the same hair," Himes told the BBC.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, says we ought to think about what Beijing “just learned.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Legislators looked ashen and somber, and one of their number, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., declared it “one of the most troubling things” he’d ever witnessed.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025

For the doctor was a man, she well knew, who was quite as nice and particular about dress and personal appearance as the late Mr. Himes had been.

From A Chosen Few Short Stories by Stockton, Frank Richard