Word: hollers
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Loose lips, eccentric behavior-characteristics long affixed to this town-have to be searched for now, rooted out. Oh, evangelists still holler on the radio stations: they do not say things so much as they "sayeth" them. And H. Ross Perot did plan a commando operation against a whole country, Iran, to get two of his employees back. "Mad" Eddie Chiles-an ideologue who, says a longtime listener, "lives in a permanent state of incoherent fury"-is still on the air, and people drive around sporting bumper stickers that say I'M MAD, TOO, EDDIE...
Missouri Farmer Walter Yoder keeps his 35 head of cattle on a diet of Wonder bread, honey buns and Ding Dongs (which they eat with the wrappers still on). "When I holler come and git it, these steers come running," Yoder says. "They like it more than the tall, lush grass in springtime. Even when the bread is moldy, they still like it just fine." Ted Thoreson, another Missouri cattleman, offers his steers spent Lipton tea leaves and contaminated flour. Says Thoreson: "The truth is that cows can actually convert most any kind of waste to food...
When things are happening that you do not like, you have to stand up and holler and demand that they stop. I confess to having done this once or twice in my dealings with the University. Here, one can is more limited when he acts alone. I have been an elected official in Cambridge for more than 30 consecutive years. If some of my colleagues in government had joined me in my battles along the way, we could have stopped Harvard from doing some things that have now returned to cause us trouble...
...catches the summers here," chides a buddy. "Some people go to the Hamptons") says it is a world apart from Riker's Island. "Over there it's a diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge. "It's one germ after another [at Riker's Island]. If you don't have anything wrong with you going in, you will coming...
When things are happening that you do not like, you have to stand up and holler and demand that they stop. I confess to having done this once or twice in my dealings with the University. Here, one man is more limited when he acts alone. I have been an elected official in Cambridge for more than 30 consecutive years. If some of my colleagues in government had joined me in my battles along the way, we could have stopped Harvard from doing some things that have now returned to cause us trouble...