Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...song-filled talk to his children, Oscar Brown Jr. tells of the Christmas lights that he knew all year round-because his father manufactured them...
...VIDA, by Oscar Lewis. A nightmarish picture of poverty among Puerto Ricans in San Juan's La Esmeralda and New York City's Spanish Harlem-painted largely by the subjects themselves with the assistance of Anthropologist Lewis' ubiquitous tape recorder...
When Ileto took over, no fugitive on the wanted list was considered more dangerous than "Commander Oscar," the pseudonym for Ricardo Ignacio, a shadowy gunman who was Huk chief tain in six towns in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces and also one of the Huks' most feared "enforcers." The government credited Oscar with at least 25 assassinations and abductions in recent months; Oscar himself openly bragged that he had led the ambush that killed the Huk-fighting mayor of Candaba last July...
Cerf endured that job for three years, while all around him New York was bursting with bright, talented people; his friends and former classmates were men such as Composers Howard Dietz, Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. The theater and Tin Pan Alley were his passions. Says Donald Klopfer, 64, Cerfs Columbia classmate and now vice chairman of the Random House board of directors...
...last meeting this month, the Faculty voted not to consider a resolution that condemned the 2-S deferments as "unjust." Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, who introduced the motion to table the anti-2-S resolution, argued that the Faculty should not consider "abstract" questions...