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...ended on a high note. The Federalist Party ended on a low one. It carried a new taint: defeatism and treason. The last Federalist presidential candidate ran in 1816, carrying only three states. Federalism became a political cussword; decades later, a young Abraham Lincoln would joke that his enemies accused...
...quickly the mood was changing. They came back to work last week after spending some time at home and getting an earful. Real people, the lawmakers learned, were sick and tired of turning off the TV when the news came on and hearing their kids use "Monica" like a cussword. They kept asking each other how they were supposed to explain to their constituents why the President of the U.S. was allowed to keep his job after admitting to behavior that would get a high school principal fired. Even Republicans like Representative Fred Upton, a moderate Michigander, called for Clinton...
...extend the current labor contract until Oct. 15, while negotiations for a new contract continued. Longshoremen, with a base pay of $2.80 an hour, were demanding 50? more. Management was offering them 30?, but the real issue was not wages. It was what the I.L.A. uses as a cussword: "automation." The shippers wanted to replace antiquated loading and unloading equipment with new devices-belt conveyors for the obsolescent cargo slings of clipper-ship days; electronic gantry cranes, and huge container vans with detachable wheels and chassis. Union men feared that the new equipment would also replace longshoremen, demanded a contract...
...Midwest is plainly prosperous, but farmers have not yet come to thank the policies of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson; in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa especially, Benson remains a political cussword...
...went on: "They cut out eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which eight bars they were gong to cut. Why don't somebody tell me these things around here? Holy--I'm going off my nut." And you'd be surprised how funny an ordinary cussword can sound with a string section background. Unfortunately this gem of Papa Bing's can be heard only on dubbings from the original master. I was fortunate enough to get one. Line forms to the right...