Word: oklahoman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dust Bowl. The Tennessee Valley. Huey Long. Bob LaFollette. Woody Guthrie. All the images of an earthy, deep-rooted populism are evoked in Fred Harris' pungent, often spellbinding speeches. The best orator among the declared candidates, Harris, 45, is running a "people's campaign" against "privilege." The Oklahoman logged 6,300 miles on a cross-country trek in a 24-foot camper last summer, cooking over an open fire, speaking to any small group that would listen (and often the groups were very small indeed). He hopes to ride this camper-style politics to the White House...
...Research Center, an impressively equipped printing school in Oklahoma City supported by the Post and 200 other papers and known among union members as a "school for scabs." Indeed, the center was organized largely by a newspaper production manager who had driven printing unions from the nearby Daily Oklahoman and Times (combined circ. 272,177) in the 1950s...
...Curly Smith, 53, a native Oklahoman, is now a land developer in Boulder City, Nev., living "mighty fine"?enough to pilot his own Lear jet. "I'm a very practical person," he says. "I found that with TM I could take life's pressures better. My mind was clearer, and I had a better disposition. The darndest thing about it is that all you have to do is say your mantra twice...
...example, that the State Department had shipped home carpeting that the wife of New Mexico Senator Joseph Montoya had bought in Hong Kong. The Washington Post got the State Department to open up files on official foreign gifts to former President Nixon and his family. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman obtained 17,000 pages of research and other materials that the Army had withheld on the My Lai massacre...
...after thousands of cheering Mexicans had showered him with carnations during his get-acquainted meeting with Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez, Ford flew to Oklahoma, which gave Richard Nixon 75% of its vote in 1972. Ford arrived in Oklahoma City at the same time that the Republican-oriented Daily Oklahoman published the results of a random survey of 2,900 voters, showing Republican Senator Henry Bellmon trailing Democratic Challenger Ed Edmondson by 13 points and Republican Gubernatorial Nominee James Inhofe lagging behind Democrat David Boren by 49 points...