Word: hick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Bourke Hickenlooper, 75, conservative Republican Senator from Iowa for nearly a quarter-century; of a heart attack; on Shelter Island, N.Y. A onetime Cedar Rapids lawyer, "Hick" Hickenlooper followed a traditional path through the Governor's Mansion before winning a Senate seat in 1944. In Washington, he was known as a consummate skeptic; he voted or argued against many Democratic measures, including the 1964 civil rights bill and Medicare. Until his retirement in 1969, however, he maintained a moderate internationalism as ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee. He also sponsored several major laws, including the Atomic Energy...
...perhaps it was because I am a Louisiana redneck, and I could understand an Egyptian redneck. Nasser was a hick. Though he was born in Alexandria, he was marked as a Saidi, a product of his father's village in upper Egypt, regarded as a vulgar character because his first language was Arabic instead of French...