Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today. Never has so much diplomatic and military strength been used so inadequately as by this Administration." ¶ Ronald Reagan has added $2,000,000 to the Republican Party's campaign chest in the past six months-a record for individual fund raising for the G.O.P. Last week California's Governor was off on his third cross-country speaking tour since September. From the Tulsa fairgrounds to Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque, crowds in four states gathered for a boffo blend of patter and polemic that made party cash registers ring-a-ding. However, the Reagan charisma...
...Eugene McCarthy, re-examining his image after seven weeks of campaigning for the presidency as a peace candidate, concluded that he came across more as a poet than an electable politician. Accordingly, on a swing through California last week, the Minnesota Democrat broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could...
Rocky could take some consolation, though: his budget will in all likelihood not be the year's record breaker. Next month California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who campaigned on an economizing platform, is expected to ask his legislature for $5.6 billion...
...soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because they might irk women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving an ambulance in Viet...
...Chicago's WBBM-TV, eight seconds after the show signs on, all 30 phone lines are tied up. The morning after a Jobathon on Los Angeles' KTTV-TV last August, 6,000 applicants were queued outside of California state employment offices...