Word: louie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, Republican Candidate Louie Nunn shook hands all around the state. Nevertheless, he was unable to win forgiveness for an action he had taken when he served as Governor from 1967 to 1971 - raising the sales tax from 3? on the dollar to 5?. Not even carpeting the state with new roads or running a competent, scandal-free administration could placate those voters who still called the tax "Nunn's nickel...
...wife into the hill country and substituting television blitzes and phone banks for local organizations. He spent more than $1 million of his own money on the campaign. Glamour and greenbacks proved a winning combination, giving Brown 29% of the vote; Runner-Up Sloan received 24%. But former Governor Louie Nunn, the Republican nominee, is a street-fighter who will give Brown a tough race. His first salvo was to call his opponent "a snake-oil salesman...
...rock journalism" as "People who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Articulate and outspoken, Zappa has never been afraid to bite the "invisible hand" that feeds him, even insulting the "boys and girls" who buy his records and scream for "Louie, Louie" from concert hall audiences...
...light vein, as well. But Belushi and Aykroyd did not record Briefcase Full of Blues as a comedy album. Belushi is clearly out to prove that he is a singer, not just a comedian who sings a little. His performances here, along with his renditions of "Louie, Louie" and "Money" on the Animal House soundtrack and his famous Joe Crocker imitation, show just how good a rock and roll singer...
...This place wasn't run too swift. We're going to have a lot cleaner and a lot fuller shelves," Luigi Parisi, an ex-construction worker who is the new owner of the store said yesterday. Parisi also plans to change the name of the store to "Louie...