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Word: orangeburger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target In a Trailer. Hugo Sims, who is a lawyer, taught-and he learned. "I'm trying," he explained, "to work out a liberal program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: At Home on Wheels | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Orangeburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Worldly Goods. In Orangeburg, S.C., Negro Willie Davis, filing a chattel mortgage, listed among his belongings "one wooden leg, dark brown, used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...JAMES R. WOODRUFF Orangeburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free French | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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