Word: oregon
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...someone wants to come close to me, he has to make the effort," says Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 54, the guru of some 1,300 red-garbed disciples who live in the commune city of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon. "Those who come to me, it is their joy. If they leave me, it is their joy. I am blissful anyway, whether anyone comes or anyone goes...
...denounce the nine or so who flew his coop as "fascists" and "criminals." He accused some of the defectors of an exotic miscellany of offenses. Offering nothing that authorities considered proof, Rajneesh asserted that there had been attempted poisonings of seven people, including Jefferson County District Attorney Michael Sullivan. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh ordered the attorney general to investigate, stating that "certain evidence, independent of the bare allegations coming from Rancho Rajneesh, tends to confirm that Mr. Sullivan was the subject of an assassination attempt" in 1982. Rajneesh also suggested that misdeeds at the commune were responsible...
Take, for example, the wimpy animals. There are some major colleges that have football teams out there with nicknames like the Blue Hens (Delaware), the Gophers (Minnesota), the Ducks (Oregon) and the Beavers (Oregon State...
From this week's trivia file come this fact: Harvard and Columbia have identical bowl records. Both are 1-0-0 in bowl games, with each squad earning victories in the Rose Bowl. Harvard beat Oregon, 7-6, in 1919 and Columbia beat Stanford...
...time high of 17 wins--include: Arlington's Elizabeth Crowley, an outfielder who was named the Boston Globe's All-Scholastic Player of the Year as a high school senior; infielder Nancy Prior, also from the Boston area and a Globe Honorable Mention selection; pitcher Lora Rowning of Oregon; and Ellen Cox, an infielder from Louisville...