A police heroine? (Tidbits & Outrages).An El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. , Texas, police officer nearly lost her job after supervisors decided her name was "inappropriate." Christine Lynn O'Kane's badge read: C. O'KANE. "It is clear that the intention was to refer to the drug cocaine cocaine (kōkān`, kō`kān), alkaloid drug derived from the leaves of the coca shrub. A commonly abused illegal drug, cocaine has limited medical uses, most often in surgical applications that take advantage of the fact that, in ," the department's personnel director complained. O'Kane appealed to the Civil Service Commission and won, then adopted her maiden name maiden name n. A woman's family name before she is married. Used of a surname that is replaced by a woman when she marries. Also called birth name. , Whitaker. |
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