Word: prede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco, as hymned by the faithful, is not the American Paris; Paris is the French San Francisco. Yet last week even the most ardent San Franciscan had to admit that there was also an uncomfortable similarity between the city's lackluster politics and those of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic. As evidenced by the stampede of undistinguished candidates for mayor, San Francisco is in danger of becoming Bathos...
That evening he appeared at the second annual awards dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the men tally retarded. Following a droll mono logue by Jack Benny and the whispery voice of Nat King Cole, Johnson spoke softly and solemnly about his prede cessor. "We shall finish his fight," he said, "and we shall conquer mental retardation and mental illness and poverty and every other foe of the land that he loved, and every foe of the people he served...