Word: collar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another heartstring tug from your American Scene. Thousands of us middle-aged men harbor memories of the rumble and roar of combines [Sept. 4]. For many young Plainsmen in the '50s, it was the price we'd decided to pay for college tuition, books and white-collar dreams fulfilled...
...suit-and-tie stand up comedian with straight punch-line jokes playing "straight middle-class saloon jobs." That was the year he split up with partner Jack Burns and became a solo act; since then his comedy has gradually changed. "By '69 I had a beard and an open collar and a vest," he says. "I had already become half of the person I was going...
...part for his brown Triumph sports car. The Triumph suffered a blown head gasket after pulling a U-Haul trailer up one mountain grade too many. Shepherd wears his hair long, sports a scraggly beard, an earring in his left ear lobe and a gold marijuana leaf in his collar. He is going to the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he will study molecular biology. He is impatient to leave Evanston, this cowboy and oil town where they sell bumper stickers that read I'M A ROPER, NOT A DOPER...
Fraud and white-collar crimes against he government are not limited to the GSA. Elmer B. Staats, comptroller general of the GSA, said at the subcommittee hearing...
King says he is running for the blue collar workers he describes as the "mainstream of the Democratic Party." He favors capital punishment, mandatory jail sentences for drug pushers, nuclear power as "the safest alternative form of energy," raising the drinking age to 21, and most of all--Proposition...