Word: abzugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night in Queens, thirsty for a thunderstorm that will come too late, but 250 middle-class homeowners stay dutifully in their hard little folding chairs. They are at the Bell Park Jewish Center to inspect mayoral candidates. Congressman Ed Koch leads off-witty, whimsical, wise-and he suggests that Abzug is a demagogue for promising that she would wrest more federal help for the beleaguered city. He gets polite applause...
Then it is Abzug's turn. A year or two ago, "Battling Bella" might have hollered some rib-cracking ripostes. Instead, she manages to look dainty in her white straw hat. Despite the heat and her bulk, she gives her most benign smile, a cultivated mannerism that accentuates the Oriental cast of her eyes. Sweetly, she says: "I disagree with Mr. Koch. I think that I am magnificent." The crowd exhales delight...
...must be reformed to,save many millions. She would sack incompetent hacks and hire professional administrators. She would tidy up the sloppy procedures that keep New York from getting the maximum out of federal subsidies. Hundreds of millions in real estate and sales taxes now go uncollected each year; Abzug pledges to go after them: "I know where the money...
...perspiring. Her left fist kayoes phantom adversaries in the air. Candidate Carter promised a federal takeover of welfare, and Candidate Abzug would hold him to it. "The city of New York has to organize and seek coalitions of the people, and mayors, and Governors and members of Congress and labor and the banks to insist that there is a national movement, and we in the city of New York need a billion dollars to take care of our streets, our teachers, our sanitation, our housing, our hospitals, our senior centers, our child-care centers...
Abruptly, Abzug changes tempo, modulates to a reassuring croon. "That's why you're going to elect me mayor." There is electricity in the synagogue sanctuary now, and Abzug delights in every watt. "I may break my neck in the process, but I'm going to do it!" Somewhere in the back, a middle-aged housewife shouts: "Right...