Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that surrounded the house, and they soon took to broadcasting at the neighborhood: "This is non-station KLSD, 800 micrograms in your head, the station designed to blow your mind and undo your bind, from up here atop the redwoods on Venus." Or they would invite say all of California's Hells Angels for a visit to the community of La Honda...
...museums as far away as Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though he was caught in the very act of writing "To a Waterfowl...
...said Dorman, both Laetrile and Liefcort are still available in Mexico, especially in border towns near California and Texas. San Diego is the headquarters for a lay group named the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, which drums up business for the Mexican clinics "where the discredited and worthless cancer products are used...
...give it to him right away, he throws a temper tantrum." If Mother seeks medical help, the doctor is soon exasperated as the little monster upsets ashtrays, spins the examining stool, snaps the tongue depressors, and tries to grab the guppies in the fish tank. At such moments, says California's Dr. Daniel M. Martin, "it behooves the doctor to suppress that 'urge to kill' look in his eyes...
...Charles, which attracted 300 oarsmen in its first year, is likely to draw 600 participants this year, making it the largest regatta ever held in the United States. It has become for rowing what the Boston Marathon is for running, and entries from as far west as Santa Barbara, California, have been accepted...