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O'Neill

[ oh-neel ]

noun

  1. Eugene (Gladstone), 1888–1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel Prize 1936.
  2. Thomas P(hilip) Tip, 1912–1994, U.S. politician: congressman 1953–87; speaker of the House 1977–87.


O'Neill

/ əʊˈniːl /

noun

  1. O'NeillEugene (Gladstone)18881953MUSTHEATRE: dramatist Eugene ( Gladstone ). 1888–1953, US dramatist. His works, which are notable for their emotional power and psychological analysis, include Desire under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning becomes Elektra (1931), Long Day's Journey into Night (1941), and The Iceman Cometh (1946): Nobel prize for literature 1936


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He could talk about how Reagan and Tip O'Neill did something siilar.

Democrats, enough of them, led by Tip O'Neill, put Reagan's programs through.

MORGAN O'NEILL COFOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER, RECOVERS Morgan O'Neill is the chief science officer of Recovers.

A resident of Pacifica, California, O'Neill spends her spare time reading Hemingway, growing vegetables, and rock climbing.

CAITRIA O'NEILL COFOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, RECOVERS Caitria O'Neill is the chief executive officer of Recovers.

Sam O'Neill stood picking at a splotch on the ancient plaster, with strong, yellow-gloved hands.

Yet the two men in the waiting-room, beholding, turned away, and Sam O'Neill bit a groan through in the middle.

We have room for another officer, and we need men like you, Captain O'Neill, to help us against the aliens out there!

Flannery had almost hoped that it would be O'Neill who would handle the problem of cultural interpenetration.

O'Neill not only for years beat her generals in the field, her beat herself and her councillors at their own game.

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