CALS


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CALS

(kælz)
n.
a set of standards mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense for technical documentation in electronic form, including SGML markup of the document structure.
[C(omputer-aided) A(cquisition and) L(ogistics) S(upport)]
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References in classic literature ?
The thought was forced upon me: "The ras- cals -- THEY have served other people so in their day; it being their own turn, now, they were not expecting any better treatment than this; so their philosophical bearing is not an outcome of mental training, intellec- tual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians."
How else could he give Johnny Black four years an' Cal Hutchins twenty years?
Cal's mother wouldn't let 'm go swimmin', an' whenever she suspected she always licked his hair with her tongue.
I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotisti- cal, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor.
As he talked his voice became soft and musi- cal. There was a caress in that also.
Presently she was in, and, squatting by the side of the corpse in such a fashion that I could not get to the door, she began to make lamentations and to cal down curses on me.
The seriocomic periodi- cal PUNCH, I remember, made a happy use of it in the political cartoon.
It was her physi cal personality that had this imposing charm.
The sea and all nauti cal affairs seemed very far removed from the hos pitality of this exemplary family.
Esq., of San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all."