Word: os
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used his speech as the linchpin of an editorial campaign. The editors canvassed the University with postcards, and received overwhelming support for the continuation of intercollegiate competition. A petition kept at The Crimson offices got 2000 undergraduate signatures for the continuation of the sport, and President Allen W. Hinkel 'OS presented it to a meeting of the Faculty. In the end, The Crimson side prevailed, and saved the day for generations of tailgaters, sport swriters, and television football fans...
According to the new constitution, Marcos, who was limited to two terms under the old law, will be able to serve simultaneously as interim President and interim Prime Minister as long as he pleases. Manileños joke that each day after the plebiscite, President Marcos will relinquish a little power and Prime Minister Marcos will gain a little. Asked if he had any idea how long after the ratification of the new constitution he would call for new elections, Marcos replied: "I would rather not speculate. Under the old constitution, an election would take place in 1973. Since martial...
Local police, with fewer men, cars and guns than the gangs, have been unable to stop the killings. But the federal government frequently strikes back. Last May a tough police comandante named Everardo Perales Rīos was sent to clean up Nuevo Laredo. In six weeks, Perales collected three tons of marijuana, two pounds of heroin and quantities of cocaine and raw opium-more drugs than local police had confiscated in 20 years. Unfortunately, Perales' success was his undoing. The gangs put a $5,000 contract on his head...
...judgment on Tohá. Under the Chilean constitution, a Cabinet officer faced with impeachment proceedings is automatically suspended from his post. Furious, Allende challenged the Chamber by making Tohá the acting Defense Minister and giving his old portfolio to Defense Minister Alejandro Ríos Valdivia, a moderate leftist. The opposition immediately complained that Allende was illegally circumventing the constitution...
Pimps and whores, hired killers and psychosadists, news vendors and bar bums, "rape-os" and cops-all move in and out of Johnson's scene, rendered without apology or moral judgment. Unlike writers who have never been there, Johnson has no need to sensationalize the seamy edge of society. In taut, frosted gray prose that is flat but never dull, his characters are compellingly stamped with their limiting individuality, totally unable to be more or less than they are. Silver Street's Tony Lonto, for instance, cannot help being a good cop any more than he can keep...