Word: asses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haste to jail or levy exhorbitant fines on union men and women; and most of all there are daily televised threats from the White House. The President knows how to play the crowds, and he's found an easy victim. Forty eight hours and you're out on your ass, he says, and a nation angered at having to take the train to New York stands and applauds. It is sad proof of the weakness of American labor that he would dare such a thing--even sadder proof that he is succeeding...
...liberals without being willing to give up any of the privileges of race or class infuriates many of those interviewed by Gwaltney. And it won't be simply a matter of handing out money, as many good liberals once assumed. "Any fool knows that if you are on your ass, what you need is lots of money and a way to make some money" one man tells Gwaltney. But instead, welfare created a dependence that couldn't be broken, that manufactured nothing but shame. "When they help their own, they give them money and say 'Here...
...going to find 'Old Goldy' fighting like hell." Goldwater attacked directly a claim by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, head of the fundamentalist Moral Majority, that all "good Christians" should be concerned about the appointment. Scoffed Old Goldy: "Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass...
...jetliners, the stewardesses passing among them like sweet American hallucinations, Hefner visions, and dropped out of the sky back into an America that had turned ugly. In Seattle, some pus-gut in an American Legion cap used to greet the boys by spitting at them. "Losers!" he screamed. "Candy-ass losers...
...feel naked. That's why I became a cop, I think, because I got to carry a piece. In Nam, killing was a job, you look at somebody like a piece of hamburger. I just feel like telling someone who's bothering me, 'You know, I could blow your ass away.' I walk away ... What the hell am I doing here? I don't think we lost. Am I weak? What did I do wrong? I did my job ... The concrete we laid, the jungle we cleared! What happened to the South Vietnamese who fought with us? ... A month...