Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holton's most impassioned attacks are reserved for Godwin's anti-integration record and his support for the $1.50 poll tax, which Virginia voters must pay three years in advance of each state election. "I'm going to hang the poll tax around Godwin's neck," promises Holton, "and beat it like a brass cymbal all over Virginia...
Godwin's neck is out. As a state senator, he led the Byrd machine's "massive resistance" campaign against school in tegration in 1959 and 1960, and has faithfully supported segregationist, budget-cutting legislation. However, since his election to the lieutenant-governorship in 1961, he has been carefully cultivating a more moderate image. Last year, with an eye to the Statehouse, Godwin campaigned vigorously for Lyndon Johnson while most Byrd stalwarts either sat on their hands or roundly supported Barry Goldwater. Godwin maintains that his earlier advocacy of segregated schools gave Virginians a "breathing period" in which...
Public opinion is on the side of the smugglers, especially in the mountain country, where nearly everyone has a friend or relative in the business. When border police accidentally shot a girl spallona in the neck last winter, citizens picketed the guard post with placards declaring: YOU SHOULDN'T SHOOT A GIRL FOR SMUGGLING! Actually, the police are not as strict as they might be, since the mountain folk, if foiled in cigarette smuggling, might take to something serious like narcotics. Explains Border Police Chief Salvatore Gallo: "The state prefers in a certain sense to tolerate smuggling rather than...
...left Tokyo with "no alternative but to move south for resources to Indonesia." Japan, writes Hayashi, was justified in attacking Pearl Harbor out of self-defense. "How was it possible," he asks, "to maintain peace and order when one guy takes away food from the other and strangles his neck...
...granny is not a grandmother but a garment: a dress that covers the wearer from neck to ankle, a kind of nipped-in Mother Hubbard gussied up with Victorian furbelows and bows. Real-life grannies would not be caught dead in one: grannies are only for girls...