Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition for delegates will come from a nominally uncommitted slate led by two highly popular politicians, Senator Harrison Williams and Jersey City Mayor Paul Jordan. Like most of their running mates, they are Humphrey fans. The former Vice President retains a large following in the state, particularly among blue-collar workers and blacks. The Williams-Jordan slate is getting strong organizational help from the party's state chairman, James Dugan, who is feuding with Governor Byrne...
...employee who is a graduate of the College and works in student loans says the "team spirit" in his section is a paternalistic creation, and that it will frustrate the District 65 effort. Because the work is "less regimented than other white-collar work," he says, a team spirit flourishes. Or as Brown-Beasley says, "there's an extraordinary amount of intimacy here. One can hear the name Jerry [Jerrold Gibson] on the lips of many people here...
...element in American Christianity (see RELIGION). They also constitute a natural constituency for Carter, responding enthusiastically to his frequent use of words and phrases that identify him as one of them: love, brotherhood, decency, purity, compassion. His preaching of traditional moral values also appeals to many others, notably blue-collar Catholic "ethnics." Typically, a black clergyman in Philadelphia praised him as a man "with a Bible in one hand and a ballot box in the other...
...Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating his barking skills. The picture's title character, German shepherd Won Ton Ton, arrived by limo, sporting a rhinestone collar and accompanied by his trainer and a social secretary who will be arranging his promotional tour across the U.S. No autographs, please...
...social and economic background of CBers is changing rapidly. Once populated mostly by truckers and blue-collar hobbyists, CB land is attracting growing numbers of businessmen and middle-class families who use the sets for safety and information. CB is also a "bodacious" (in CB lingo, super, fantastic) way of relieving freeway tedium-so much so that truckers' use of amphetamines has declined drastically in recent years. Ordinary drivers tend to be as evangelistic about the medium as oldtime gear jammers. "When I'm on the road these days," says New York Businessman Lawrence LeKashman...