Word: odom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headlines as BUSTA BUSTED, BUSTA CRIMES and BUSTED RHYMES. Police had observed the singer driving erratically in Manhattan, pulled him over and found a loaded, unregistered pistol in the back seat as well as a small amount of marijuana in the pocket of Busta's manager and passenger, Gerald Odom. Both men were charged with possession of a weapon; Odom was also charged with possession of marijuana. Released on their own recognizance, the two will return to court later this month; meanwhile city headline writers are left once again searching for something to rhyme with Giuliani...
Kenyon Martin had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Bearcats and Pete Mickeal added 15 points and 10 rebounds and also did a fine defensive job on Rhode Island's star sophomore Lamar Odom...
That effort was local. But a year later, trustees of SHOPA's charitable foundation began discussing a national school-supply program. One trustee suggested tapping into World Vision's Brother to Brother plan, which operates throughout the U.S. Some time later, World Vision's Robert Odom overheard Chicago school principal Tyson fretting that her students had no pencils for a citywide test. Odom called BTB in Tempe, Ariz., and urged them to start a school-supply program. "We've been talking to SHOPA for a year about this," he was told...
Most stores serve schools where at least 70% of the student body is impoverished. Teachers must carry an access card and a shopping list endorsed by their principal. Odom recalls teachers "literally crying," knowing their kids "would have a notebook for each subject." At the ribbon cutting in Los Angeles, Monique Allen, 10, of the 68th Street school, says she long suspected one of her teachers had deep pockets because the school "didn't have the kind of paper she put in my math folder." Now it does...
...Williams is only one of many, many characters Berendt has on file. There's also Luther Driggers, an eccentric chemist who carries on his person a vial of poison powerful enough to kill every man, woman and child in Savannah; Joe Odom, a ne'er-do-well lawyer who lives in other people's houses and steals electricity from next door when the power company cuts him off; and, of course, the irrepressible Lady Chablis...