Word: goner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back home in Port Arthur, Texas, Janis' mother and father (a cannery executive) are mildly astonished at her success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik...
...where South Vietnam has failed. "If you can find the group of men who could do it," Lee said in Dunster, "Saigon can do what Singapore did." In fact, the prime minister boasted, "If one looked at Saigon and Singapore in 1954, one would have said Singapore was the goner, not Saigon...
Though he knows that he is a goner without the Jewish vote, he decried the necessity of having to defend his Jewish credentials. Said he: "If I have to be Jewish to win this campaign, it's not worth winning. I don't want the voters to elect me to Congress because I am a Jew. I hope they won't reject me because I am married to a Protestant...
...facts add up to a hilariously inaccurate picture of energy-rich little (140 Ibs.) Bayard Quincy Morgan, Stanford's former chairman of Germanic languages, author of 40 books and countless articles-and the nation's most frenetic fumigator of the myth that every Mr. Chips is a goner...