Word: potlanders
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Common Humanity. Not all speakers appealed to understanding and common sense. Borrowing Spiro Agnew's argot, NASA Administrator Thomas O. Paine took potshots at "Potland," which he said is waging "hysterical warfare" against "Squareland." Speaking at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Paine proposed a hypothetical Cabinet for the country, including Timothy Leary (Secretary of Agriculture), Jane Fonda (Interior), Arlo Guthrie (H.E.W.), Ralph Nader (Commerce) and Bobby Scale (Attorney General). Paine asserted that Potlanders were heavily dependent on "foreign aid" from Squareland. His words were generally ill-received. "The speech had one thing going for it," said a Worcester administrator...
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