Word: bein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discussing the ECAC's, Terry's eyes glossed over and his voice quivered. "I couldda had class. I couldda been somebody, a contendah, steadda bein' a bum, which is what I am," he said...
Archie: Edith, you gotta stop readin' what them two bleeding hearts bring home! I'm tellin' ya-you wanna get into sports or entertainment, it's easier bein' black. That...
Archie: You're takin' what I said out of contest, like ya always do, Mr. Big Liberal. All I meant was, bein' colored, Flip had a natural advantage of entertainin' being in his blood...
Edith: I thought it's tougher bein' born black...
Despite the incandescence of his rhetoric, Boggs did not offer substantive evidence, but said only that a telephone company investigator had told him that his line had been tapped. Another telephone company spokesman, Fred Lang-bein, said, however, that he had checked Boggs' phone at the time and that there had been no evidence of wiretapping. (Langbein noted that the phone company had handed over a record of Boggs' long-distance calls to the Justice Department under subpoena in a case involving a Government contract scandal...