Word: nowadayses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Historically, the U.S. has been at pains to make sure that small factions are not pushed around by any overbearing majority. Today, such is the fragmented atmosphere of public discourse, that it is sometimes hard to remember that majority will or consensus exists, and, indeed, these seem to crystallize less...
Thurmond is the consummate courthouse-square politician, meticulously sending constituents congratulations for birthdays, weddings and graduations, and taking care of their problems with Government bureaucrats. Nowadays blacks as well as whites get such treatment. This has been the case ever since 1970, when a segregationist friend lost a bid for...
The situation is not much better on campus. He somehow remembers a pusher going door to door in Kirkland House selling heroin--curious, in retrospect, considering you can't even bum a cigarette in Kirkland House nowadays. During punching season, he is shocked by a conversation with Porcellian Club members...
Oddly enough, for a team that is long on speed and short on muscle, the Royals can drop and kick the ball with the worst of them. By last week, the butterfingered Royals had committed 145 errors and ranked next to last in the league in fielding. Still, the Kansas...
This color coding has not worked, since it is easy for a bandit with artistic bent to repaint his model gun to give it a menacing steel blue glower. Typical was the incident last July when a real robber brandishing a fake black Colt .38 held up a real Kyoto...