Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, we still don't know anything about Yale," warned Sam Calhoun, captain of the Eliot grid squad that meets Branford College in the tackle football title match. "I mean, they could be great...
Those University of Hartford students who sat through Thurmond's speech were probably a little awed by the transformation of their cafeteria. When they heard a dixiecrat proclaim that "Next to John C. Calhoun, Agnew's the best Vice-President the country's ever had" in their eastern college eating-place, it must have been discomforting. When a crowd of student-conservatives greeted the announcement with a standing ovation and drawled YAAAHOOOS, it was unquestionably sobering...
...Laura Calhoun, 18, University of Illinois...
Earline inhabits a very different world from Laura Calhoun's. Born in Memphis to a Negro mother and Puerto Rican father, she has been on drugs for nine years, heroin for five. She has been raped twice; the second time she shot her attacker to death. A week before Christmas in 1968, she stabbed her mother, who had abandoned her years before. Earline has been arrested repeatedly-for forgery, robbery, manslaughter. Now she is in Chicago's Gateway House, a treatment center for drug addicts, trying to kick heroin...
...African ear. So there is a de'z and do'z of slave speech sounding beneath our most polished Harvard accents, and if there is such a thing as a Yale accent, there is a Negro wail in it-doubtlessly introduced there by Old Yalie John C. Calhoun, who probably got it from his mammy...