Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomorrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin-day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there's a barrel of flour or a keg of whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put astitch in the worst rip in the biler [here in winked], I don't see what's to hender but we mought get so's to be eff some time Thursday, that's day after tomorrow. Anyhow, stranger, I would...
...senior Soviet diplomat turned to a U.S. acquaintance. "You Americans are top dogs who are going down fast," he said. "We are underdogs coming up fast. We have Pompidou and Brandt going to Moscow. Heath is coming to get his astrakhan hat, and he might even get a keg of vodka too. They are turning our way. They are trying to strike bargains because they know we are moving up and you are moving down...
...highest-ranking blacks. "The blacks started out mistrusting the President, and nothing has happened to change that," Farmer added. "There's an absence of hope-a hopelessness among blacks. I am very much worried about this summer. The Administration is sitting on a powder keg...