Word: tennessean
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...disillusioned refrain of the bombing blues. The Birmingham News was among the few to give President Nixon unrestrained backing: "Let the voices denounce Hanoi's aggression before they decry America's support of South Viet Nam's resistance." More common were the views of the Nashville Tennessean ("Another package of dashed hopes and empty promises") and the Raleigh News and Observer (Nixon "owes the people an explanation of his intentions...
...came down to participate in sit-ins, the inexorable stream of Supreme Court decisions, all seem to have been parts of an occupation by outsiders sent down from Washington. (It is amazing that so many Northerners consider Washington to be in the South. To an Alabamian or a Tennessean, Washington is as much a part of the North as New York, both geographically and intellectually.) This has all resulted in a sort of regional persecution complex. Most Southerners feel, with some justification, that they have taken more than their share of blame. Thus many who disagree with the racial views...
Sheriff Tawes (Gregory Peck) is a righteous, brooding Tennessean overtaken by the sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine...
...STROM was astrummin' a new and angry tune. At a Washington reception given by Southern Republican leaders, Senator Thurmond kept jabbing a bony finger into the chest of Bill Timmons, a conservative Tennessean and President Nixon's top congressional liaison man, berating him about the Administration's school policies ("I've got marks all over me," reports Timmons). The South Carolina Senator also complained that he could not get to see Nixon as often as he liked. Spotting Attorney General John Mitchell, he lit into him too. Then, on the Senate floor, Thurmond charged that...
...Kirkhorn, Milwaukee Journal: Gerry C. Lafollette, Indianapolis News: John R. Pekkanen, Life; Richard J. Pothier, Miami Herald; Daniel Rapoport, UPI: Jack Schwatz, Newsday; James D. Squires, Nashville Tennessean: Josephine D. Thomas. Cincinnati Post and Times-Star; Ronald R. Walker, San Juan Star; and Jerome R. Watson, Chicago Sun-Times...