Word: claghorns
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...colorblind" administration and appointed a black to a top advisory post. West's promises were rooted in more than altruism: political analysts attribute his slim victory margin to some 110,000 black voters. The altered arithmetic of South Carolina politics has even touched that prototype of the traditional Southern claghorn, Senator Strom Thurmond. Thurmond recently hired the former director of a black-voter registration project to run his home-state office in Columbia. Said one South Carolina politician: "Next to having that baby at age 68, it's the best thing Strom has done." Governors Reubin Askew of Florida, Dale...
...Crimson proved his hypothesis yesterday, taking all 12 games at the bottom four positions. Sophomore Dave Fish at number six started the rout by easily handling Fred Claghorn...
...Boykin proclaimed indefatigably, "everything's made for love." And during his 28 years as U.S. Representative from Alabama, omnia vicit amor. Wrapped perennially in a white linen suit, his huge (250 lbs.) frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming...
...suit, the Democratic senator could pass for an Ivy Leaguer. His pants sometimes bag a bit around the shoes, but, except for this, he hardly resembles the popular caricature of Senator Claghorn from the outlands. Church's speech is slightly nasal, but has none of the Khrushchev and the people of Idaho agree is abstract painting." But he can turn words and situations to advantage as well as amusement. When a student asked whether it was a good idea to send people like Senator Ellender to Africa, Church, reluctant to discuss the foibles of his colleagues, replied with a slight...
...thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives. He drinks bourbon and talks Bourbon: "Imagine a future where delicate little white girls must share their desks with coal-black niggers in order to learn to read and write...