Word: oed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Harvard officials are waiting, gnashing their teeth and talking about the agency's failure to uncover the documents that will vindicate the University. Thomas O'Brien, vice-president for financial affairs, predicts that HEW will eventually only demand that the University return a few hundred thousand dollars due to insufficient documentation--in contrast to the $2.5 million the original audit asserted had been misused. Both O'Brien and other University officials say the agency derived the $2.5 million figure after dissecting only a small part of the total--and then extrapolating the results...
...O, sometimes I wonder why children can't be born with an innate sense of respect. But at least one person has learned something about himself, because the children called him big nose...
Speaker Thomas (Tip) P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), said yesterday the House vote will end efforts in Congress to bring back draft registration, at least for the forseeable future...
Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) meanwhile, said a nomination battle could revitalize the party. "The party has always been in the best shape when the arguments and bickering are gotten out of the way the year before presidential elections," O'Neill said...
...best known for the incendiary qualities of his music. His keyboard skills have been celebrated since his days as a cornerstone member of the Animals, one of the most vigorous of the Beatles-era British rock groups. His songs for Lindsay Anderson's mock epic of modern England, O Lucky Man (1973), stand as one of the decade's most original film scores. But the spike in his lyrics can be easy to miss: it is hidden neatly between a rich melody and a smooth delivery that owes as much to cabaret as to the Speaker...