Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corps of assistant coaches that hail from as far away as southern California and as close to home as Norwood, Mass, the Crimson cagers draw from a wealth of basketball experience...
City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
Like any good negotiator, Wu questioned whether Wang could really deliver the goods. With the tape rolling, Wang eagerly showed him official-looking documents stating he had been a prosecutor on Hainan Island in southern China. He assured Wu that he had attended numerous executions and could coordinate the extraction of body parts from 50 of the 200 prisoners killed on Hainan each year...
...with two choices: place the housing authority under jurisdiction of a federal judge or find an outside institution free of HANO's own dubious 58-year history to run it. Federal officials decided to hand the housing authority over to Tulane University--a highly selective, overwhelmingly white, old-line Southern school situated in a picturesque neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. It seemed an unlikely choice: What could Tulane know about fixing a bureaucracy that was rotting away as much as the buildings in its care? A lot, it turns out. According to the Federal Government's rating system, Tulane...
...TIME's desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles. Would Mr. Henderson himself care to be styled plain "Henderson...