Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House so Lyndon could keep an eye on him. Billy, who declared his dislike for Blacks; Billy, who loaned his name to a (bad) brand of beer; Billy, who picked up a stack of money from Col. Khadafy and the Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport runways while his brother the President piously declared: "I have never had an occasion to be embarrassed by Billy. I'm proud he's my brother." And then there was the First Mother, Miss Lillian, who after examining the products of her marriage questioned whether...
Dymally added that he's been involved with elections for 20 years and the only contest he ever lost was one where the public could not rely on a sample ballot. "You do all the work for a little ol' lady, hand her a sample ballot all filled out with a 'Democrat' signed at the bottom, and she goes in and votes...
More important, the Soviets would be forced to take over Poland's enfeebled economy, a $21 billion hard-currency debt to the West and a mutinous population. All of these costs, as Secretary ol State Edmund Muskie noted last week, would be "taken out of the hides of the Soviet people." The low-keyed rumbles of discontent in the U.S.S.R. about deaths and injuries suffered by an invasion force of 85,000 in Afghanistan would grow far louder if Soviet troops were bloodied in a Polish occupation...
...Bloomingdale's in New York, which has eight departments (including one named In Flight) selling jumpsuitery, they come in soft, billowy silks and satins, polished cotton and gabardine, velvet and crepe de Chine in art deco prints. Head-turning hues include purple, burgundy, fuchsia, aubergine, white and that ol' black magic...
Whites were hardly reassured last week when Tekere walked out of Salisbury's Chikurubi Prison, where he had been held for 14 days on charges of murdering a 68-year-old white farm manager. Tekere, who is also secretary-general ol Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) party, was released on $75,000 bail after a white judge accepted the Prime Minister's personal pledge that Tekere would stand trial...