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Word: samsonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Governor's Club. The cause of Kirk's Samsonian ire was the Supreme Court's January order directing "immediate" desegregation in a number of school districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Ain't Nobody Gonna Touch King Claude | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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