Word: neill
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...Congressional District isn't like anyplace else. Encompassing nearly half the city of Boston, all of what locals call the People's Republic of Cambridge, and several limousine-liberal suburbs, the Eighth has sent just three Congressmen to Washington since 1946: John F. Kennedy, former House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Joseph P. Kennedy II. It is a shrine to old-school liberalism and one of the safest Democratic seats in the country. And so, when Joe Kennedy announced his retirement earlier this year, it wasn't long before 10 local Democrats had swarmed into the race to replace...
Margorie O'Neill Clapprood, a former state representative suggested using "creative solutions" to solve economic problems. She proposed providing loans to welfare mothers which would allow them to open day-care centers...
...Eugene O'Neill wins first of four Pulitzers for Beyond the Horizon...
...increasingly politicized message of his films, his expressed sympathies with pacifists, communists and Soviet supporters, became suspect. It didn't help that Chaplin, a bafflingly complex and private man, had a weakness for young girls. His first two wives were 16 when he married them; his last, Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, was 18. In 1943 he was the defendant in a public, protracted paternity suit. Denouncing his "leering, sneering attitude" toward the U.S. and his "unsavory" morals, various public officials, citizen groups and gossip columnists led a boycott of his pictures...
Baseball, as Sandel intimates, often serves as a sacred space, whether in the bleachers or in the Bronx bars that no doubt drank a round in Boomer's honor after Paul O'Neill gloved Pat Meares...