Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mansfield '78 waited nearby, holding only a few books. Behind him stood Frank Fukuyama, a graduate student in the Gov Department, also holding a few books...
...black briefing book, prepared by Counselors Ted Van Dyk, John Stewart, Frank Mankiewicz and Ted Sorensen, includes 15 areas of issues, as well as 40 questions likely to be put to Carter, and suggested answers. Said one of the four who worked on it: "It is a sobering list for Carter." The book warns that the questioners will surely challenge Carter in two areas: issues that he has seemed to straddle (like suggesting a strong military posture with a reduced defense budget), and social issues (like amnesty, abortion and busing). The most feared prospect in the book: that a questioner...
...they are soon drowned out by a new beat-the frank clang of cash registers, of buildings going up, of dirt roads being paved, of high school and college bands exhorting their black and white football stars to victory, of new leaders with old courtesies, of expectations that no longer seem visionary or Utopian...
...also a totally immersed Christian who knows his Bible, along with all verses of Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...
Times are rough right now in Chatham, both for the farmers with their puny, drought-burned tobacco leaves and for the folks in the stores, which are hurting for customers. "Nowadays, you are lucky if you can farm, keep your place clean and pay your taxes," complains Frank Pierce, 56, an archetypal Southern farmer in bib overalls. He says that many farmers are turning to moonshine whisky to see them through. Even so, there is a basic optimism. "Folks can do all right," maintains Mayor Hairston...