Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found time to attend the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in Manhattan, where he shared the dais with Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and New York's Archbishop Terence Cooke. Johnson was in good humor. Mimicking Nixon's farewell speech after he lost the election for Governor of California, he declared that "this is the last time you will be able to kick Lyndon Johnson around." For all his seeming relaxation, however, the President's attention was focused on any signs from Hanoi that might signal a desire for peace. In what could have been a significant move...
About 200 University of California at Berkeley students barricaded themselves inside a classroom and office building Wednesday evening...
...just hitchhiked in from Ohio had no place to go at all. They asked Mel for 20 cents to take the MBTA to Central Square and look there. "We don't know what we're doing here," said the smaller one. "We really wanted to go to California." He added that they planned to start earning money right away. "There's never too many people dealing in dope...
...another occasion, in a speech in Fresno, California, Nixon ate a symbolic bunch of grapes and told the crowd "I will eat California grapes and drink the product of those grapes whenever...
...past, too, there was bitter friction among the racial minorities in California's central valley. If the Mexican-American was not as good as the white man, Munoz explains, at least he felt better than the black. But when the Farm Workers Union launched its attack on the growers--the core of Anglo economic power in central California--and when the union won several significant victories, the Mexican-Americans began to see their fight as a part of a larger struggle of the rich against the poor. "Now I know I'm a black man, too," says Munoz...