Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under the letter G, you will eventually find the word God." The prize for Hindu chutzpah, however, goes to the master who asked an ambassador's wife about the pain in her leg. "It has never given any pain," replied the woman. The unflustered guru...
...followed him three years later, leaving the play wright as her boys' principal guardian. His care and kindness could not be faulted, but no indulgence could save the doomed family. George, the eldest, was killed in the trenches of World War I; Michael, the most brilliant, drowned at Oxford, possibly as the result of a suicide pact with another student; Peter jumped in front of a London subway train in 1960. As Birkin unfolds the darkening drama, his book becomes a psychological thriller. The biographer's own style is self-effacing, and he is content...
Signed by more than a dozen residents in the Wendell, Mellon and Oxford St. area, the petition calls for "a temporary moratorium on conversion of residential structures to educational and religious uses...to provide time for the city to implement" permanent regulations on the use of institutional property...
...mechanics kept cars and trucks running with paper clips and baling wire, and rows of women bent over sewing machines have all been destroyed or closed. Until 1975 the Ruseokeo textile plant on the outskirts of the city employed 600 workers making cotton cloth. With help from OXFAM, the Oxford-based relief agency, it has since reopened, but only half of its looms are being used. Reason: a lack of spare parts for the steam boiler that drives them. Complains Manager Tiv Chhivky, 45, "I don't know what parts to ask for. We want to reconstruct...
Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, confided that the one present he could be bribed with is the complete Oxford English Dictionary. He added he had seen it in a bookstore for $404, but for "the best dictionary ever," it's a bargain at the price...