Word: bordertown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congregational minister from the outback hamlet of Bordertown, Hawke is a Rhodes scholar who, while at Oxford, set a world beer-drinking record (according to the 1957 Guinness Book of Records, he downed 2½ pints in twelve seconds). Hawke spent twelve years as the A.C.T.U.'s brilliant, abrasive chief lawyer. When he succeeded to the union's leadership last year, he be gan tackling everyone and everything. He described the national steel monopoly, Broken Hill Proprietary, as rapacious. He called Cabinet Member Billy Snedden, who is considered McMahon's heir apparent, "an intellectual cripple." He blasted...
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