Changing Language Puts Burden On Dictionaries
Old Dad notes new words and shifts in meaning shaping dictionaries. Sandy explains Proud Crowd in high schools while Merriam Webster weighs entries like stonewall benign neglect and chairperson. The piece humorously contrasts gendered job terms becoming neutral and a domestic humor about building maintainer roles.
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Sandy
Donna Evers
Constitution
Lawton
Webster's Dictionary
New Old Farmer’s
Merriam
Bialess
Nixon and Associates
Nixon
Telephone Times
Lawton LURA plans traffic controls to satisfy Otasco
The Lawton LURA board backs a resolution of intent to install three traffic control measures around Otasco at Second and C. Otasco seeks inclusion in the court settlement but city officials fear future legal action if controls must be changed. LURA also awards two improvement contracts totaling about 366,365.15 for Tennessee Avenue work and a Rose Hill greenway to screen homes from future industrial development.
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Second and
Lawton
Otasco
Lura Board
Otasco Legal
Redman
Frascon, Inc
Tennessee Avenue
11Th
15Th
Fifth and McKinley
Chapman Construction Company, Inc
Garfield Avenue
Bishop Road
Rose Hill
Sian Gondillans
City of
City Hal
State OF
Oklahoma
Charles D. Duncan
District Court
Comanche County
Sterling
la Dean Corry
Lawmakers consider suspending teachers charged with crimes
Policy advocate Lewis urges suspending teachers without pay pending court outcomes to protect students and maintain trust. He notes the presumption of innocence and cautions boards lack facts, fearing potential double jeopardy and urges a new law before the next legislature.
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Sun
Lewis
Jim Howell
Midwest City
Howell
Senate
Common Education Committee
Irwin predicts space mission families and women astronauts
Astronaut James B. Irwin told Lawton High School students that future space travelers may include family units and that American women astronauts will be selected soon. He noted forty new astronauts this year and that five to ten could be women, sharing his views after a talk and film about Apollo 15.
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James B. Irwin
Lawton High School
Irwin
Oklahoma
U.S. Naval Academy
Jim Irwin
Air Force
Dave Scott
Moon
Scott
Earth
High Flight Foundation
High Flight
Lawton
Midland residents told to evacuate as tornado threat lingers
Residents in Midland and suburban areas including Hower Mount Halley Ingersoll and Midland Township were urged to flee the danger zone by radio television and volunteers. Officials cited thousands displaced as the National Weather Service in Bay City noted winds of seven miles per hour from the south-southeast.
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Page One
Midland
Hower
Mount Halley
Ingersoll
Midland Township
Lapp
National Weather Service
Detroit
Bay City
Carter touts Canal Zone treaties and domestic programs at DNC
President Carter addressed the Democratic National Committee, praising the Canal Zone treaties and urging support for welfare reform tax reform government reorganization and disarmament talks. He warned of an oil lobby influence on Congress and pledged to press on next year.
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Carter
Canal Zone
Panama
Democratic National Committee
Congress
Capitol Hill
United States
Farm Ownership and Operating Loans Seek $100 Million Boost
Loans said these funds are repaid to the national treasury and are a good investment. Bellman requests an additional $100 million nationally for farm ownership loans to be added to the supplemental appropriations budget. Farm ownership loans buy or enlarge farms, construct or repair homes and service buildings, and improve water supply systems. Operating loans finance farm and ranch production equipment and supplies.
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National Treasury
Bellman
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Rhonda Lamb
Tina Duling
Gale Spears
Cameron Stadium
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Doris Marie King
W. P. Clay
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Constitution Lawton Publishing Co., Inc
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Galore
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All American Beauty Supply
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Kellwood Company
City of Forest, Mississippi
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