Word: longshoreman
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...also argued impressively, most analysts gave Bush a slight edge (see following story). But the next day, Bush squandered some of the benefits with one of the silliest blunders of the campaign. After a rally in Elizabeth, N.J., on Friday, a television boom mike caught him whispering to a longshoreman that "we tried to kick a little ass last night." Realizing that the mike was on, the Vice President then exclaimed, "Whoops! Oh, God, he heard me! Turn that thing...
...recent Eddie and the Cruisers, Hard To Hold tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...
DIED. Eric Hoffer, 80, the crusty, self-taught longshoreman-philosopher whose 1951 work The True Believer dissected fanaticism; in San Francisco. An itinerant laborer for much of his early life, Hoffer was widely known in the '60s through his syndicated newspaper column. He gave it up in 1970-"I don't want to die barking"-and became "conversationalist at large" at the University of California at Berkeley...
DIED. Phillip Burton, 56, eleven-term Democratic California Congressman whose skills at political dealmaking and infighting made him one of the most influential members of the House; of a ruptured aorta; in San Francisco. He called himself a "fighting liberal"; with the build, voice and vocabulary of a longshoreman from his San Francisco district, he fit the part. But he was pragmatic and persuasive in pursuing liberal goals, including higher minimum wages, mine safety, improved old age and disability benefits, and the creation of national parks. In 1976 he came within one vote of becoming majority leader, losing in part...
Born in downtrodden South Boston in 1939. Flynn's career has been a prototype for political success. Son of a longshoreman and a house cleaner, he went on to Providence College, where he was an All-American basketball player...