Word: o
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LOOK at the book's opening sentence: "Maybe it comes from living in San Francisco, city of clammy humors and foghorns that warn and warn--omen, o-o-men, o dolorous men, o dolors of omens--and not enough sun, but Wittman Ah Sing considered suicide every day." This phrase could be the bad opening of a bad novel, the unwieldy preface to an overbearing descriptive work, the sort of thing the Surrealists objected to in their first manifesto. Except, in this case it is intentional...
...hospital has taken advantage of Clark's appointment to create a new community-based OB/GYN service that employs two doctors and four nurse midwives, O'Brien said. The health workers operate out of six Cambridge neighborhood health centers affiliated with the hospital O'Brien said...
...very excited about the new program," said O'Brien. "The program has been well received throughout the community, especially by the impoverished linguistic minority." Both Clark and Dr. Lou Laz, who works with Clark on the project, are fluent in Spanish, and Laz speaks Portuguese, according to a Cambridge Hospital news release...
...English Springer Spaniel named O'Toole after the actor, Peter. These spaniels are much like that actor--somewhat aloof, completely charming and totally unpredictable...
...unusual for the press to take an interest in presidential families. Jackie O. and the Kennedy kids, LBJ's daughters, the Nixon wedding and Billy Carter all were played prominently in the national news. Their lives, romances and struggles are of national interest...