Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, several primaries in May look promising for Reagan-if he stays in the race that long. Among them: Texas (May 1), where he is expected to win at least half the 100 delegates at stake, Louisiana (May 1), West Virginia (May 11) and Kentucky, Tennessee, Nevada, Idaho and Oregon (all May 25). He hopes a chain of strong showings in these states will help him win all of California's 167 delegates on June...
...Arnold has set his sights higher in 1976, entering primaries in New Hampshire (where he garnered 290 votes), Oregon and Wisconsin...
...cutting out some "Mickey Mouse" federal programs. An adviser said that Church will follow "a late strategy-we watch the others beat the hell out of each other and spend themselves to death." Then Church will offer himself as an unbruised new face in the late primaries in Idaho, Oregon, Rhode Island, Montana and California...
...Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that his gun is too heavy...
...truth seeker is Tom Burnam, an English professor at Portland State University in Oregon, and his compendium is the best antidote to nonsense since H.L. Mencken hung up his spites. "I believe," says Burnam in his introduction to The Dictionary of Misinformation, "that when we fall it's not because our reasoning faculties have tripped us; it's because of the things we know that just aren...