Word: honk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FEAR of futility pervades these gestures. Pennsylvanian Hugh Scott, the senate minority leader has been overwhelmed with pro-impeachment letters, but when the White House announced that two of the tapes were missing, he simply said, "The machine age is not perfect." And the popular "honk for impeachment" demonstrations just don't have any thrill to them when the president is two full hours down I-95 or in San Clemente or Key Biscayne. No blast from a car's horn in Philadelphia can rattle the White House windows. There is no satisfaction in booing Nixon from a distance...
Some six miles south of Machias on Route 1 the cars pass a man in a blue workshirt and brown denim pants, striding along the shoulder of the road. Some of the cars honk and the man waves in response. Approaching a farmhouse, he leaves the road to greet a farmer standing by the side of the building. "Hi, I'm Bill Cohen," he says. "I'm walking through the county and wanted to stop by and see how things are going...
...HONK IF YOU KNOW JESUS
...Then I started thinking about noise," Kaufman added. "That thing (the garage) is going to be open all night. If one guy sits on his horn, it's going to wake up the whole building. It's a common practice in parking garages to honk your horn as you come around a corner. Even if it happened only 15 nights a year, we would consider it an imposition...
...stand surrounded; braless girls in blue workshirts beside working women with matching shoes and bag. A banner near me, marked with dove, Women's Strike for Peace. Not far away, Hands Off Angela Davis. The Third World Women's Alliance. I can't see in any direction; somewhere cars honk, and voices begin the familiar war whoop. We are anxious to begin. A laughing girl breaks off mid-whoop: "Hey, maybe this isn't feminine." In my notes I describe her as pretty, blond, and am ashamed. I would never describe a man that...