Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is Claude Kirk, Governor of Florida. Do you read my press? Then you know that I'm a tree-shakin' son of a bitch...
Reagan, of course, had planned it that way-or so claimed his detractors. After all, he dined with Yaleman William F. Buckley Jr. Unbaitable and well read in his homework, Reagan fielded questions with aplomb and wit. Asked whether he felt homosexuals had any place in government, he drawled: "Well, perhaps in the Department of Parks and Recreation." Queried more querulously about Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey's suggestion that draft dissenters be reclassified, Reagan admitted that "emotionally I could go along with him" but "intellectually I realize we can't make military service punitive." The anti-Johsonian...
...official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes a business of forgery, sources who knew Amer well and have read the document claim that on the basis of its style, opinions and signature, it is unmistakably Amer's. It not only criticizes Nasser but offers strong indication that Amer was murdered. Excerpts...
...literally a fish dish of the same grade as semolina pudding; more likely is an abomination of "filcher", meaning in this context a hippie so degraded that he has to steal, violating the hippie ethics. 18) to jump? 19) the Penguin textbook editions; here means people who haven't read farther. The word is actually plural in the song, and is an appositive of choking smokers. 20) chanted repeatedly by a host. 21) the death of Oswald from King Lear: act IV, scene vi, lines...
...words are almost entirely variations on "You say yes-I say no-You say goodbye-I say hello". Serious fans read into this a put-down of the hippies' offhand and mindless acceptance of everything and everybody. They're pretty much right. But it doesn't matter: the song is quite catholic and can readily mean anything you feel like when you say hello...