Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Graham? Oral Roberts? Not quite. The speaker is Lester Maddox, former Governor and now Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, onetime wielder of ax handles to keep blacks away from his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta, and one of the hottest speakers these days on the U.S. fundamentalist circuit...
...appearances are called for, Wallace's men are setting up a kind of speaker's bureau of stand-ins. Among the volunteers: former California Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty, now a dean at Alabama's Troy State University, and Georgia's Lieut. Governor Lester Maddox...
...support for troops on the ground in 1965. Largely because the small North Vietnamese Navy has steered clear of combat, the naval war has been consistently overshadowed by American fighting on the ground and in the air. The major exception occurred in August 1964, when two American destroyers, the Maddox and the Turner Joy, reported that they had been attacked in the gulf by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The incident, whose authenticity is still in doubt, led directly to passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which Lyndon Johnson used as authority for massive U.S. intervention...
...trouble finding another welding job, so she countered male reluctance with extreme measures. "This Women's Liberation thing was starting up then, and I just called Governor Maddox and asked him why I couldn't get a job if I was a qualified welder." The state labor department quickly arranged an interview with Scientific Atlanta, Inc., where Janie has worked for three years. She was such an attraction at the plant that the company provided her with curtains to hang around her station. After work she loves Atlanta night life, and her apartment is handsomely decorated with aluminum...
What Senator William Proxmire is doing the hard way with his hair transplants, Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox has accomplished in one fell swoop. Returning to the state senate after a longish lunch hour, a new-look Maddox explained: "Sorry I'm late-I had to stop and get my new hair." Later, looking vaguely avuncular in his sandy gray toupee, he proclaimed himself a pacesetter. "You remember when I rode backwards on my bicycle-now everybody is buying bicycles," he observed. "You just watch, pretty soon everybody will be buying hairpieces...