Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reagan's target was Drew Pearson; his strategy, counterattack. "He's lying," said the Governor of California. "Pearson shouldn't be using a typewriter. He's better with a pencil on outbuilding walls." How to explain Pearson's attack...
...Shirley Black's middle name were Smith," said one of her foes in next week's California llth Congressional District primary, "she would not be running for Congress." But it isn't, and she is, and Shirley Temple Black is in the midst of an increasingly sulfurous campaign that is giving San Mateo County's half-million people a colorful spectrum of choice...
...Organization Democrats Roy Archibald, 47, a former San Mateo mayor, and Daniel Monaco, 45, a California state inheritance-tax appraiser, who may cancel each other out and cut into Keating's vote...
Stop and Shop, the largest supermarket chain in New England, yesterday agreed to buy no more Giumarra grapes until the California farm workers national boycott against Giumarra has ended...
Except in Florida and Southern California, drive-in churches generally function only in the summer or for Easter sunrise services. They particularly attract vacationers who, as one minister puts it, suffer from "normal protestantitis"-the feeling that summer is the time to take a holiday from church. Many worshipers are attracted by the lack of usual Sunday formality, show up in everything from bathing suits to pajamas. The church lots are invariably packed with cars carrying rooftop boats, surfboards, golf clubs and picnic hampers. But the convenience of drive-in services also attracts the sick and disabled, parents with small...