Word: olga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...player sophomore Margaret Elias lost to First Team All-American sophomore Olga Puigdemont-Sola...
...Olga Bowe let the demand for their Chicago home drive their schedule. People who had left the Windy City and wanted to return to visit family just flocked to them. The Bowes did their first exchange with a Cincinnati family about nine years ago. Why Cincinnati? No special reason, Olga giggles. They got an offer; it was close; they thought they would try it. Since then, they've taken their two kids to homes in San Diego, Toronto, London--and twice to Orlando, where they swap with Floridians Jan and Stuart Omans...
...Olga and Ed also had a "problem" when they exchanged with a couple in Missouri who had neglected to get new license plates on their Mitsubishi, and the Bowes were stopped by the police almost as soon as they took it out of the driveway. "We can't use this car!" they called their home to complain. "Oh, sorry," said their swappers. "Just use the car in the garage--the white Jaguar...
...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...
...made an occasional gasp at beauty ("One of the cranes has flown away. Still no rain. They're building a shed in the courtyard. The other crane is bored."). Dominick Jones, who adapted the letters, included a subtle subplot in which Chekhov sends misleading and contradictory travel plans to Olga so that he will not have to hear had news about the reception of his new play, but unfortunately that nuance did not come out in Jones' reading. If the audience came expecting the kind of letters one might mark up for a literature seminar, by Keats or by Rilke...