Word: oxnard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm failed in the Depression, and when Chavez was ten, the family packed everything it owned into a decrepit automobile and headed across the Colorado River into California. In Oxnard, Chavez's father found work threshing lima beans; when all the beans were harvested, the family took off, looking for other jobs and often turning up just a few days after a crop...
That first winter back in Oxnard, with the little money earned in the fields already gone, was the family's worst time. Cesar's brother Richard remembers: "There was this nice lady there...
...Russell Karl, a pastor in Oxnard, Calif., wrote to Los Angeles' James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre two weeks ago, disagreeing with the encyclical. When he met Mclntyre later, Karl said, he was handed a letter relieving him of his parish duties. Mclntyre's office announced that Karl had "requested a leave of absence." What the "leave" involves, according to the 50-year-old priest, is "a new career in Texas, possibly as a social worker or insurance salesman." Washington, D.C.'s Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle has issued "canonical admonitions"-formal warnings that, under canon...
Drysdale: Oh, fine, I feel fine. But before we go any further, I'd like to say hello to my wife Ginger and my nine-year-old daughter Kelly Jean and all the gang at Drysdale's Dug Out, which, as you all know, is located on Oxnard Street in Van Nuys, California and is open nightly till...
...requests for thousands. High school teachers hold spelling bees between Knifs and Ghoulardis, and football coaches similarly divide their teams for intrasquad scrimmages. One day Anderson said: "All the world's a purple Knif." Now every kid in Cleveland is saying that. He thinks the name Oxnard, as in Oxnard, Calif., is hilarious. He named a crow Oxnard. Kids all over the Cleveland area are calling one another Oxnard...