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...Wisconsin, he began putting together a team of more than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse-maker." Atop these replies the Cassidy team...
...need for a Cairo-Damascus-Jerusalem federation. Ezekiel 47: 22 could be taken to point out that Israelis have a responsibility not just to Jewish immigrants but to the Palestinian Arabs under their jurisdiction: "The strangers that sojourn among you . . . they shall be unto you as the homeborn, [and] they shall have inheritance with...
Mississippi's Wirt Yerger Jr., 32, who works in his father's Jackson insurance agency, is chairman in a state where homeborn Republicans were lately regarded as freaks. Yerger's chief rival for Mississippi Republican supremacy was the late Perry Howard, a Negro, who was national committeeman for 36 years, lived most of that time in Washington, and racked up a record of almost absolute in effectiveness. Yerger has organized local leaders in nearly half of the state's 82 counties, has small sympathy for those party members who are along just for the ride. Says...
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