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Word: bonawentura (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Love & Hate in Chicago | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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