Word: haggards
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...yesterday, a haggard but alert Trudeau read a nationally broadcast statement to officials and reporters gathered on Parliament Hill in the capital city of Ottowa, blasting the FLQ as "a band of murderers" and adding, "I cannot but feel, as a Canadian, a deep sense of shame that this cruel and senseless act could be conceived in cold blood and executed in like manner...
...MERLE HAGGARD is representative of the current synthesis of country music and its white, lower middle-class politics. Born into the depression in southern California, Haggard learned as a teenager how to steal and strip cars. Not very much later he was in San Quentin on a burglary charge when he heard Johnny Cash and decided to take up the guitar. By 1964, five years after he was released from prison, he had two records that sold over a million copies and in 1970 his Okie from Muskogee topped a million inside two weeks, won for him the country artist...
...Haggard now lives in a ranch-style home in Bakersfield, California, and drinks Old Grand-Dad warm out of the bottle...
...said that the haggard man pictured was a 21-year-old strung out on speed. "Most people take him for about 35," the ad said...
Well, we mind. We mind very much about our three sons of military age, and everybody else's sons. We mind the haggard and frightened faces of the 19-and 20-year-olds in Viet Nam, which come into our homes every evening via the 6:30 news. We mind that we are not marching with Dr. Spock; we are the angry Establishment, the not-so-Silent Majority of mothers and fathers who mind that their sons are drafted, and for what? An honorable peace? Brush wars in Southeast Asia for the next 50 years? It is time that...