Synonyms for howard hughes
howard hugh·es

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1. Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughesnoun

   United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

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1. • Aviator
   • Industrialist

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1. List of known nicknames for "Howard Hughes":

   Hughes, Howard, Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., Sonny, The World's Greatest Womanizer, Howard R. Hughes, John T. Conover

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1. Air Force:

   On June 5, during a passport fraud investigation, the US Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service interviewed an individual claiming to be Barry O'Beirne. After being confronted with inconsistencies about his identity, the individual admitted his true name was William Howard Hughes Jr., and that he deserted from the US Air Force in 1983, capt. Hughes claimed that in 1983 he was depressed about being in the Air Force so he left, created the fictitious identity of O'Beirne and has been living in California ever since.

2. Joan Didion:

   It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

3. Ted Morgan:

   Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.