Word: abner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ABNER J. MIKVA...
...guests stood under a striped canopy on the lawn, finished their roast beef sandwiches, their soda and beer, their cake and apples, finished with all the other speakers. Al Capp, Li'l Abner's creator and one of the big attractions of the celebraton, had titillated them with a long chuckling monologue-"I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard.... As for John Kenneth Galbraith, well [chuckle], he's by far the best American economist since Edna St. Vincent Mllay.... I think the bedwetting, lunatic left knows that it's lost.... We're in for something...
Organized crime secured its first firm beachhead in New Jersey during Prohibition days, when Abner ("Longie") Zwillman used the state as the base for 40% of the nation's bootlegging operations. Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931. New Jersey suited the underworld's needs perfectly. The Hudson River separated its members from the tough law enforcement of New York racketbusters like Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Dewey and, more recently, Frank Hogan. Neither police forces nor local government had caught...
Virginia went for Nixon in 1960 and 1968, but the statehouse remained firmly in Democratic hands, as it has for eight decades. Now the old Byrd machine is moribund, and the G.O.P. is respectable in the South. A. (for Abner) Linwood Holton, 46, a close Nixon ally who ran unsuccessfully for the governorship four years ago, was the easy victor over William Battle...
...cigar box on the front seat. In Detroit, a college student explained his windshield emblem: "The police like this sort of thing, and maybe, if I'm speeding and they see the flag, they won't pull me over." Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li' l Abner comic strips have been waxing increasingly patriotic, probably speaks for the less cynical majority when he says: "The flag looks better waving than burning...