Word: omen
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...random a combination of numbers which would add up to this desired number, and the results were ominous: 1984 can be written as 1300 (thus frightening triskadecaphobes for an entire year) plus 666 plus three sixes (which would offend religious people as well as those who saw the "Omen" movies...
...week's end the negotiating process was interrupted as Ambassador Parsons flew back to London to consult with his government. There was no indication of whether his departure was an omen for good or ill, although Parsons on arriving in Britain declared that this week "things will move very rapidly one way or another." Underscoring that point, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounded far from hopeful as she told a Conservative Party audience in Perth, Scotland, that a negotiated settlement of the Falklands dispute "may prove unattainable." Said she with passion: "I hope with all my heart that...
There has also been a significant amount of feminist activity in the Divinity School outside of classes, especially as the number of omen students increases. "There's a large community of women numerically." Buchanan says, adding that many do volunteer work in the community, at rape counseling centers, shelters for battered women, and women's support groups...
After three more years of delay in getting Congress to take action, the question now is whether a Congress besieged by cost cutters will finally vote millions of dollars for a wall and some fountains. An omen came last fall when Democratic Representative Dan Glickman of Kansas demanded (in vain) the cancellation of the $30,000 budgeted every year for the Roosevelt commission. Glickman professed himself an admirer of Roosevelt but complained that the commission had spent $510,000 in its 26-year existence and had very little to show for it. In fact, the $30,000 budget goes mainly...
...think it's a very sad situation," John P. Reardon Jr,'60, director of athletics, said. "We wanted to stay in Division 1-A based on our tradition. Basically Harvard, Yale sand Princeton started the NCAA. I don't think it's a good omen for college athletics," he added...