Word: bubba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munching hamburgers in an Atlanta Airport restaurant last December, Emory University Senior Remar ("Bubba") Sutton and the school's sophomore class president, Don Brunson, decided in a rush of anger that they were fed up with student protest against U.S. warfare in Viet Nam. They went back to Sutton's dorm, talked all through the night with four other students, by morning had drafted a set of purposes for a new organization-Affirmation: Viet Nam. They dedicated it to demonstrating that "the opinion of the majority cannot be obscured by the voice of the minority...
This success cost its student backers missed classes, slipping grades, weeks of 20-hour-a-day effort centered in a 20-room section of Emory's Wesley Hall dormitory. The brashness of Bubba Sutton, 24-year-old son of a Marietta, Ga., building contractor and former student on the world-circling University of the Seven Seas, provided the main push. He flew to New York to gain the backing of General Lucius Clay, to Los Angeles to get Bob Hope to make part of a television special explaining A.V.N. to Georgia viewers, to Miami to get Singer Anita Bryant...
...even did sit-ups himself-and the results exceeded his fondest expectations. Tackle Don Bierowicz left school last June weighing 211 Ibs., came back weighing a hard 231 Ibs. Middle Linebacker Harold Lucas weighed 257 Ibs. in June, was up to 286 Ibs. when practice started. Defensive End Charles ("Bubba") Smith, a 241-pounder in 1964, reported back...
Thomas handed his pistol to Wilkins. There was a brief discussion on whether they should force the other car off the road, but Wilkins said, "Bubba, if you hit that automobile at all we may get caught. If you get just a little bit of paint on it we'll get caught...