Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black was the color of the evening. Never before had a White House dinner been so dominated by Negroes, and never before had a U.S. artist of the masses been so honored. "I voted against Nixon three times since 1960," said one black musician from California, "but after tonight, he could run for Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Yesterday, Duncan sent the following telegram to students accepted for the NROTC program in the class of '73. The text was obtained from a high school senior in California...
...Crimson finally met up with a tough foe in the next game when it squared off against Springfield. Tom McGill, a high school All-American from California, was the Harvard standout as he tallied 11 times in the 16-14 victory which set the stage for the finals...
...Harsh. Having reached the first-degree murder verdict the previous week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that...
Snarling engines. Dark goggles. Billowing dust. Hell's Angels in California? No, Viet Nam, where the U.S. military, never tiring in its search for methods to find an elusive enemy, has just added the motorcycle to the hunter's inventory that has, at one time or other, included such exotica as people-sniffing bedbugs, infra-red photography and side-looking radar...