Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they'd laugh at me. 'Did you ever see a game?' I'd ask them. 'Well, no, they'd say." Former New York Giants Halfback Frank Gifford, who did not come into the National Football League until 1952, remembers going home to California after the season was over and having his friends ask: "Where have you been...
...joke, and the remark does seem inappropriate today: Oklahoma's football fortunes have been on the decline since the resignation of Coach Charles ("Bud") Wilkinson in 1964, while Cross has been steadily nudging his school toward standards of quality achieved by such state university giants as California, Wisconsin and Michigan...
...voting down new levies and rejecting bond issues. In 1960, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only 11% of the nation's school bond issues went down to defeat; last year, 25.5% were rejected by voters, while countless others were approved by whisker-thin margins. Southern California, where public school expenditures have risen 345% since 1950, is a major center of the revolt: in the past two years, exactly half of the state's 202 school bond issues have been voted down...
...Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying no to the schools. They are saying no to higher property taxes. Turning down school budgets and bond issues is the only way they can register their protest...
...dogged were the birders that even the birds far at sea were under surveil lance. Nearly 100 members of California's Golden Gate Audubon Society set out in a three-ship flotilla for the three-hour cruise to the offshore Farallon Is lands. In the process, the birders had to weather a sickening swell, the pungent aroma of the guano-splattered Farallons and the even more pungent smell of overripe suet, thrown overboard for bait. For their fortitude they were rewarded with such rarities as Brandt's cormorants, tufted puffins, pink-footed shearwaters and a couple of black...