Word: coloradan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bank's 108-year history, President Eugene H. Adams declared that "We are very mad about this situation." Next day First National further vented its anger by placing full-page newspaper ads to denounce what it described as a "blatant, selfish attempt of a part-time Coloradan turned New York Wall Street raider to take over...
When Ross is allowed to come on, the reader gets a wifely glimpse of the homely, ungainly and not too articulate Coloradan who proved that an itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that...
...shocked and disgusted at this sentence in your cover story: " 'He is an egotistical, maniacal, triple-plated son of a bitch,' growls a Coloradan in an irrational but not atypical reaction...
...triple-plates do not go to press with such tasteless wordage about the President-unless the quotation is attributed to Nixon, say, or to Billy Graham or Governor Wallace, in which case it would be legitimate. But not an unnamed Coloradan. It's like saying, with considerable truth, that a Californian growled: "TIME editors are arrogant, bumptious, and not early so sophisticated or omniscient as hey like to think"-the growler being...
...Johnson's problems with the economy, the war and civil rights have deepened, so has public mistrust of the man. "He is an egotistical, maniacal, triple-plated son of a bitch, that's what he is," growls a Coloradan in an irrational but not atypical reaction to the man. "Johnson said we could have both guns and butter," says a Los Angeles housewife. "But he didn't say how much the butter was going to cost." Yet on the issue that has inspired more nationwide and worldwide antagonism toward L.B.J. than any other-Viet Nam-a Congressional...