Word: dynamoes
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...Abraham D. Beame--swept the three citywide positions, controller, city council president, and mayor. In some ways, it was an interesting ticket. Harrison J. Goldin had first run for controller four years before. "Vote for Harrison J. Goldin," his shopping bags in 1969 recommended. "He's a young dynamo." Goldin did not use this slogan in 1973. Maybe he thought his performance in '69 showed that voters don't like youth. In the year of the energy crisis, maybe he was afraid someone might take him at his word and plug him in. Goldin did his best to exude energy...
...Dwyer is another old dynamo, a civil-rights and peace activist from way back who'd been losing elections regularly for 20 years before November. O'Dwyer has not run into major scandal yet, but Beame started running into problems right away...
...because two candidates had unknowingly broken the rules of the campaign by advertising themselves too actively. "Freshmen," said one of the offending candidates in a Crimson ad, "Vote: Neil Gross. Good O1' Gross is Great." With a little luck, the author of this advertisement may someday become a young dynamo, or maybe an old dynamo, as the case may be. It may be the year after Watergate, but the longest journey begins with a single step...
...roommates and I liked sleeping nude, and one night I couldn't sleep and went into the living room to read. Twenty minutes later, my roommate followed, still nude. Now keep in mind the fact that this guy used to be a wrestler and was built like a dynamo; he was standing just across the room, reading a magazine on the bar, completely starkers, and in profile view. I quickly shifted my position to shield my crotch from any stray glances, and I started going bananas. I began to shake uncontrollably--arms, legs, stomach--because I was in the grip...
That is a rather unusual creed for a real estate developer. Butter-pecan houses? But Emil Hanslin, a weather-beaten, chain-smoking dynamo of 52, is an unusual developer. An early proponent of cluster housing, he is now experimenting with a new way to preserve open space. Says he: "It's a very simple thing but a big idea. The buyer buys the whole acre, but he gives up part of his land to the community. That makes him feel like the Rockefellers, creating a system of space that he can enjoy and others can enjoy...