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Word: gomer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wimpy shovels in the best burgers in Boston from Bartley's Burger Cottage when he's in town. Buddy's Sirloin army mess appeal attracts the likes of Gomer Pyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Elites Meet to Eat, Read and Rock and Roll | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...schools opened this fall, Democratic Governor Julian Carroll, 44, seemed a clear favorite to be returned to the statehouse. A down-home lawyer from West Paducah, the silver-haired Carroll is a tireless campaigner and an evangelistic orator who sounds, in the words of one state politician, "like Gomer Pyle at the Second Coming." Then, under federal court order, the yellow school buses began to integrate schools in Louisville and the rest of Jefferson County, and suddenly Carroll was sharply challenged by Republican Robert E. Gable, 41, a coal and lumber millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Tough Off-Year Voters Say No | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...Does the requirement for a fair trial mean then that all such cases must be dismissed? Surely not. Or that an impartial jury can be found only among the exceptionally oblivious? If so, then presumably Galley or the Watergate defendants could only be tried by twelve idiot cousins of Gomer Pyle. Says Columbia Law School Professor Abraham Sofaer: "No one has the right to get away with a crime that is so notorious everybody knows about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Fair Trials and the Free Press | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

Usually, I go to a Carolina game over the holidays with a friend I call Gomer. This year I didn't get to one, but watched a few on T.V., including the last second 60-58 victory over Marquette in Carolina Coliseum. It was the 28th straight victory in Columbia, S.C., as the Gamecocks have not lost on their home court since a fight-marred contest with Marquette two years earlier, 72-71. In the first game, Marquette took the win with a shot in the waning seconds of play. In this year's version, the stellar Carolina guard...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 1/15/1974 | See Source »

...first coach I met was Jimmy Feula. Jimmy's scalp-revealing crewcut and voice reminded me of Gomer Pyle's sergeant. This was understandable, however; as I later found out. Feula had had a long Army career. After nearly breaking my hand with his handshake and a few minutes of small talk. Jimmy too asked me why I had left Drake. I repeated much of what I had previously said to Yovicsin. Then Feula told me how "fair and honest" he was and how he had had "many great colored guys" play for him at Harvard. After talking with "fair...

Author: By Sid Williams, | Title: A Few Words Before I Go | 5/2/1972 | See Source »

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