Word: oxon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau is in the very air these days, like dandelion puffballs." Recording the contagion, as one of the novel's several narrators, is the Rev. Arthur Vincent Broome, M.A. (Oxon.), dispatched from England to shepherd a Protestant flock in distant Killala but soon questioning whether he is merely a "priest to a military cult...
Kathy R. Patterson Oxon Hill...
...possessions, he slammed it shut with a karate chop. Asked how he felt, he responded, this time in German, "What does not destroy me makes me stronger." His destination, he said, was "east of the sun and west of the moon." That turned out to be his home in Oxon Hill, Md., where he had a long-awaited reunion with his five children. Will Liddy, who has staunchly refused to talk about Watergate, now break his silence? Publishers are said to be offering as much as $300,000 for his story, but he is silent even about their offers...
Nancy Donnelly, 20, of Oxon Hill, Md., had a rather unusual ambition for a woman: she wanted to be an officer aboard a ship. So she enrolled last year in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., which began accepting women in 1974 (current enrollment: 975 men and 25 women). But her career ran aground on an uncharted double standard...
...know your family has an exclusive, particularly beautiful coat of arms?" Such news would not be much of a revelation to the Du Fonts, Lowells, Saltonstalls or other aristocratic U.S. families. But the Difatta family of Chicago was surprised to hear the news. So, too, was J.D. Johnson of Oxon Hill, Md., who puts an "R.Ph." (for "registered pharmacist") after his signature. His letter read: "Good news for the R-PH family...