Word: rhetoritician
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...
...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...
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