Word: bummed
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...government. We Americans can point with pride to our own history, to 1814, when the British captured and burned this very city of Washington from which I am speaking to you tonight. Tonight the United States stands great, while the British are known mostly for funny movies and a bum pound...
...bum in Massachusetts and a hero in New York," he said while we sifted through his myriad news clippings. He showed me letters of congratulations from John Lindsay and Jacob Javits after his successful challenge of New York's birth control laws, and his copies of letters from EMKO Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of a contraceptive foam, which showed he was their "Eastern clinical director...
...forward in his chair and defined the enemy: "It's not the hippie, it's the hip-bo." The Mayor leaned back. The word is of his own devising, and he is proud of it. "Hip-bo comes from three things. First, hobo. Second, the combination of hippie and bum. Third, from Life Buoy soap. Remember that commercial with the foghorn blowing B-O, B-O?" To Hayes hip-bo's are the ragged tail-enders of the hippie movement, the floaters without money. "There are chronic drug and narcotic users," he charges...
...glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island. Matrons rush onstage to buss him; others in the S.R.O. house palpitate like palm fronds. Don Ho, 37, is the big noise from Waikiki these days-the biggest in the history of Hawaiian show business...
...couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat and screaming 'Ya blind bum, ya!' at the top of her lungs." They were some lungs even then. Ethel's last name was Merman. Says Bus: "I sailed away from there just as fast as I could." As it turned out, he was the winner...