Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the idea for the organization, according to Stone, was first presented to the members of the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association, "most of them approved of it outright. A few wanted to know how it would affect them. They were afraid the HSA would become some sort of monster...
...most awesome to the Lowell denizens, however, were the complaints heard in Adams. "They complained," said one Lowellian. "You know," said another, "those guys looked at the fresh fruit salad, and they looked at the oyster stew, and one of them said to me, 'Oh no, not again...
...veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that he, for one, was not buying a car because everyone knew that prices are too high. Drivers who have never peeked under the hoods of their cars are sure they know precisely what ails Detroit...
...find something wrong with all cars-maybe one word, 'Horrible.' That shows everybody you have good taste-and it conceals the real fact: you don't want to commit yourself to paying off a car for the next two years because you don't know if you will have a job next month...
...fame by winning the Mobilgas Economy Run three times: "My biggest complaint is that when the 1957 line was going fast, I just couldn't get stock. Then I took on the Renault line. If it wasn't for those little cars, I don't know if we could stay in business...