Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...richest, most luminous black paint that the world's most industrialized nation can provide. Each coat has been applied personally and diligently over a three-month period by the area's master car painter, Junior himself, of Junior's House of Paints in Lynwood. "This has gotta be the sharpest '58 Speedster you've ever seen," Wayne whispers reverently. "Look inside, those are Bigelow carpets on the floor . . . Ron had the whole interior ripped out and redone. He paid twenty-eight hundred for the car, put another four thousand in it." The door hinges...
...unions: "Muscle is out--you gotta have knowledge today...
...important consideration for DeLury in calling the 1968 strike was the self-respect of the sanitationmen. "Even now we're regarded as second-class citizens, though I don't believe it. But then we were really fighting for respect. Nobody can give respect--you gotta prove respect, get back in the public esteem. I still remember when the strike was called--half past four in the morning on February 4, 1968. Sure, I thought '68 could be negotiated, but they wouldn't give on just $25 more. Lindsay didn't know, nobody knew, what would happen when the sanitation workers...
WILL ROGERS lashed out comically at careless and deliberate political irresponsibility. He was most critical, though, of politicians' basic ambitions to manipulate people. He said, "When you gotta go 7,000 miles to find a war, you must really be looking... That's what we do worst in this country--minding other people's business." Rogers deplored a lack of respect for the ways and rights of individuals. "You many not see things my way, but why should you? I may not see things the same way you do--why should I?" this was Will Rogers' dream of American community...
...thinking in terms of the old system, ask what they must do to become firm delegates. Howell tells them to get out and campaign like everyone else who is running for a spot. "I tell these folks the name of the game this year is votes," he says. "We gotta have the votes or not have the delegates, period...