Word: sheeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student describes him, O'Toole is a "sheep in wolf's clothes." He takes evident pride in the school he helped set up in 1968, and he talks about the Northeastern students in an avuncular tone: "People come here with a strong commitment. They've tried a lot of other things, and they come to Northeastern knowing what they want. They bring a lot to the school." O'Toole says it is important that the faculty, in turn, be easily accessible to the students. "What Northeastern does for a student is incredible," he says. "In my day at Harvard...
...mixture of animal intestines and oatmeal, usually boiled in a sheep's stomach...
...bureaucrats had to admit their existence and ask for international aid. At first the drought seemed confined to eastern Ethiopia. But a new government survey uncovered big pockets of famine to the south and southeast of the capital. In Bale province alone an estimated 27,000 cattle, 25,000 sheep and goats and 500 camels have died. This study only hints at the true extent of Ethiopia's problems. Remarked an Ethiopian relief worker: "The farther east you go, the worse it gets." Ethiopian deaths are estimated at 100,000, but no one knows definitely because there...
...targets of an expose bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
...publishing the results of its probe into a land-profiteering deal involving two associates of Labor Party leader Harold Wilson (TIME, April 15 and April 22) until after the February election. But editors, who had been increasingly restless while watching American journalists pursue Watergate vigorously, decided to be sheep no longer. On April 3, a month after Wilson returned to power as Prime Minister, the Mail and Daily Express both broke front-page stories on the transaction. Enraged, Wilson issued libel writs against the two papers and apparently assumed that the matter would end. Instead, the Mail and Express boldly...