Word: theophilus
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Oscar, for openers, is the sole surviving child of a widower named Theophilus Hopkins, a naturalist renowned for his studies along the rugged English coast of Devon and a fire-breathing evangelical preacher. The lad eventually tastes a Christmas pudding, strictly forbidden by his father's severe regimen, is punished and rebels. He leaves home, settles in with the local Anglican minister, and eventually enters Oriel College, Oxford, to study < for holy orders in the Church of England. Unfortunately, no one has seen fit to pay his way -- not his impoverished adoptive father and certainly not his real...
...filled with agitation and change. There were riots at the all-white University of Mississippi when a black man named James Meredith tried to enroll. Two people were killed. Kennedy was forced to call out federal troops to install Meredith in the university. In Birmingham, Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus Eugene ("Bull") Connor turned loose police dogs upon a march led by King. The news photographs of that spectacle-the fire hoses and the snapping dogs and the beefy Southern lawmen-outraged Americans and turned the public mood. In the spring of 1963 there were 2,000 civil rights demonstrations...