Word: ochs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side with French khaki. British and French are making honest efforts to understand each other. The Scottish reel, introduced by highlanders stationed at Fontainebleau, has been taken up enthusiastically by French and Belgian soldiers; Scotsmen, though, are still shocked to hear their reeling allies cry "Hola!" instead of "Och!" A correspondent last week overheard the following conversation outside a guardroom between an R.A.F. corporal and a French private...
Ronald P. Noonan of 93 Temple Rd., Somerville; Somerville High. Michael Och of 109 Lawrence Ave., Roxbury; Boston Public Latin. Gilbert W. O'Neil of 34 Beacon St., Gloucester; Phillips Academy, Andover, Mark N. Ozer of 20 Frontenac St., Dorchester; Boston Public Latin. Eugene J. Prakapas of 95 Andover St., Lowell; Keith Academy, Lowell. Martin Prochnik of 243 Harvard Ave., Allston; Boston Public Latin...
...they piped marches and piobaireachds, a kind of wailing dirge which sounds like the cries of caged animals. Said Archibald Campbell: "We purists are passionately devoted to the piobaireachd." When the last piper had piped, one of the judges complained of a cramp and was heard to mutter: "Och, it's a terrible long business, terrible long." Another admitted to "a little pressure around the temples." The judges sadly agreed that the war years had not improved the quality of the pipers...
Ohio's Antioch College likes to be different. Its 850 students spend half their year on the campus, the other half outside on paying jobs approved by the college. For the past 24 years the head of Anti-och's social science department has been a Hindu. Last week Antioch picked a 30-year-old Negro to run its music department...
...consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...