Word: ohioan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Football is a family thing," the blond-haired Ohioan remarked after knocking off from his job as a busboy at the Faculty Club. "My brother made all-conference at Denison University and my dad played some at Miami of Ohio, so I guess I sort of expected myself to play...
...funny, some are interesting, but there's not nearly enough material here for even a magazine feature, let alone a full book. Reeves follows Clare Smith on her search for Hunter Thompson and recounts her ambiguous romantic entanglement with a young aide. But the insights a 17-year-old Ohioan brings to a national political convention are, well, the insights of a 17-year-old Ohioan. We follow her as she visits the Statue of Liberty; we follow her as she visits bars for the first time. Most banal of all, we read an imaginary conversation with her mother after...
...notes that such overtones will harm the party's efforts to broaden its base. "How many niggers you got in Vermont?" a man shouts out. I peer over at the only black face in the room--that of a young security guard. He remains impassive. A burly, slightly drunk Ohioan goes to the microphone to make his contribution. "The Panama Canal is as much ours as Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase... We should make it the 51st state...
...sure, the lone Wallace delegate in the Texas delegation lost $500 to a mugger on a fashionable street bordering Central Park late one night. Some Oklahoma delegates had their Berkshire Hotel rooms rifled, but as one of them said: "It could have happened in any city." An Ohioan chased a burglar trying to break into his car, caught him, and returned to find that his car had been towed away from its no-parking zone by police; he paid $75 to get it back...
Although Hays tried to suggest that he would regain his powers after he is "vindicated," there was no doubt that the tyrannical Ohioan's reign on Capitol Hill had ended−permanently...