Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeatedly denied. According to this theory, Nixon met with South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond and other Southern leaders in Atlanta in May of last year. The Southerners promised Nixon two things. First, they would protect Southern delegates for Nixon in the convention against the poaching of California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Second, they would do their best to hold the line in the general election against Alabama's George Wallace. In return, Nixon supposedly made certain promises, one of them being a guarantee to Strom Thurmond that he could name a Justice to the Supreme Court...
Some of the accused officers promptly consulted their attorneys on how to seek compensation from the Army for damage to their reputations or get their names fully cleared. Those prospects seemed dim, and most of the Berets probably agreed with Colonel Rheault, who said on arrival at California's Travis Air Force Base that he hoped history would ignore the affair. "It would better be forgotten as long as people remember that we were exonerated." There is little likelihood of that, but unless some of the Green Berets themselves tell their full stories, the details of the episode...
...University of Alabama, University of California (Berkeley), California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Harvard, University of Kansas, Miami-Dade Junior College, University of Michigan, Morehouse College, University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College, Smith College, University of Texas (Austin) and Wayne State University...
...RIGHTS OF THE POOR. The most important welfare suit now on the agenda argues that California may not revoke a person's benefits without first granting him a hearing before an impartial referee. California regulations, like those of many other states, entitle a person to such a hearing only after he is notified that his payments will be terminated. Thus, a person's benefits often cease before he has a chance to challenge the decision by presenting evidence to someone in authority besides his caseworker...
...first half of the season, it looked as if Arts and Letters was destined to become one of history's great also rans. Paul Mellon's wiry three-year-old lost by a neck to the magnificent California chestnut, Majestic Prince, in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The Prince was favored to take the Belmont Stakes and thereby become the first thoroughbred to win racing's Triple Crown since Citation turned the trick in 1948. But the race was not even close: guided by the steady hand of Braulio Baeza, Arts and Letters whipped Majestic...