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  • The official reaction to the revelations at Walter Reed has been swift, and it has exposed the potential political costs of ignoring Oliva's 24.3 million comrades -- America's veterans -- many of whom are among the last standing supporters of the Iraq war.

    03/04/2007 2007

  • Father Oliva's generalate occurred during one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Society, as the controversy on Jansenism, the droit de régale, and moral theology were being carried on by the opponents of the Society with the greatest acrimony and violence.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • He showed polite attention as Jake narrated the events that had led to Oliva's dismissal, but the lad imagined that he was telling him nothing he had not already heard.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • Yet it certainly began to look as if he had been stabbed by Oliva's order, and Oliva was now employed at the Adexe coaling wharf.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • They worked well, chattering and laughing, in the early morning, and there was much to be done, because Oliva's dismissal had made a difference.

    Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905

  • His attempt, aided by a walking-stick used as a balancing-pole, to keep his equilibrium on six inches of kerbing, might have been funny to a less sensitive soul than Oliva's.

    The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

  • It was Oliva's bedroom, and her workday hat and coat were lying on the bed.

    The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

  • There was a light in the fanlight of Oliva's flat, for she had brought some of her work home to finish, but Mr. Beale's flat was dark.

    The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

  • Oliva's new peril ran through all his speculations, his rapid deductions, his lightning plans.

    The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

  • He watched him racing down the stairs, darted to the door of Oliva's rooms, opened it and went in.

    The Green Rust Edgar Wallace 1903

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