Word: going
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Limousine Liberal John Lindsay & Co. had to ride the subways to work. If they had to send their children to public instead of private school. If they had to put up with the garbage men, teachers and transit workers going on strike. If they had to see their tax money spent on creating the welfare state that exists in New York City while they were working two jobs just to make ends meet. Then, and only then, maybe they would learn that people who do not live with the problems of the middle class cannot go about handing...
...about identifying the allegedly prominent Procaccino supporters? I consider myself au courant in metropolitan affairs, but many of the names are not known to me. West of the Alleghenies, I expect, most of the names go unrecognized by your average reader. Parochial notoriety, after all, is not national renown...
Clunks That Go Thunk...
...fascinating to read all about how those brilliant designers in Detroit design doors that go "thunk." Detroit has engineered other important sounds into my late-model car. There is an impressive "budda-deh-buddedeh" in my rear axle. There is a scintillating "chatcheteh-chatch-eteh" coming from a rear shock absorber, a soothing "toketah, toketah" from my radio antennae and a "tssshhhzbbbd" from my radio. And I may well have the only door that closes with a "puh-lox-ette-kuh." I have been assured by the service manager that, "dats duh way der bill...
...World Series was affected. About 200 students stood outside Shea Stadium distributing leaflets, but inside the flags flew at full mast. Mayor John V. Lindsay had ordered the flags at half mast, but representatives of three armed services in the honor guard for the flag raising refused to go in the field unless the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole...