Word: fight
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Emmett Watson, a curmudgeonly columnist for the Seattle Times, has conducted an anti-California crusade for years. MOUNT THE RAMPARTS! FIGHT CALIFORNICATION! exhorts the headline of a recent Watson tirade. The columnist is the founder of Lesser Seattle, an antibooster organization that seeks to "keep the bastards out" by exaggerating the city's negative characteristics, such as its notorious rainfall. The organization's slogan: "Have a Nice Day -- Somewhere Else!" Watson insists that his crusade is tongue in cheek, but many newly arrived Californians take less satirical slurs to heart. "Our very first day the Welcome Wagon lady called...
...exquisite young girl but turns out to be a boy. "My cousin is a drag queen, and he told me about Harvey Milk," he says. "At my other school, some people didn't know I was a guy; others called me a faggot." He adds, "I used to fight them, and I hit first. At Harvey Milk I can wear what I want." The issue is learning, nothing more, nothing less...
Before the last set of results were announced,many observers were predicting the defeat ofincumbent Thomas W. Danehy, an 11-term councillorwho enjoyed immense popularity in the 1970s.Danehy has slipped steadily in recent years andthis year had to fight off tough challenges fromCyr and Myers in his home base of North Cambridge...
People ask me, "How can you fight so vehemently against one-party government on Long Island and not decry the same system in Cambridge...
Frequently, the candidates wouldn't even talk to me. One resented the fact that I was doing too much, because it made her look like she was doing nothing. Zwirn hated me at first because of an old political fight he had with my father. As a result, nothing got done...