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Word: lounger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully described the coming of the registrars as "the second Reconstruction." And in Louisiana's East Feliciana Parish, where less than 5% of the 4,102 voting-age Negroes are on the rolls, one white lounger turned to a friend as the registration lines formed and sneered: "You got any cats, dogs or mules to bring in and register?" But there was little heckling and no violence. Law of the Land. Smoothly as Katzenbach's operation went in the selected dead-end counties, he conceded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Trigger of Hope | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...sprawling sportswriter, Matthau for once has a role that, without strain fits him like an old pair of pants. In fact he wears a pair of his own on stage, marvelously purple dungarees that cost him 12? in Chinatown. Like Oscar in the play, Matthau is a natural-born lounger, poker fan and sports butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: That Wonderful What's-His-Name | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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