Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing else, Thelma Stovall has found a novel way to make the Governor of Kentucky stick to his old Kentucky home. If he wanders too far or tarries too long beyond the state's borders, he had better look back and ask, "What's Thelma...
Still holding elective office 19 years later, Thelma pounced again last March, after she had moved up to Lieutenant Governor. When the current Governor, Democrat Julian Carroll, left the state briefly, Stovall exercised her temporary veto authority to kill the Kentucky legislature's attempt to rescind its earlier ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The veto stuck...
...came when he was 14 and working at a nearby hospital; some of his black co-workers invited him to bring his Bible and give a sermon at their church. "You could see there was something haywire even at that time," says Swift. But Mrs. Kennedy's daughter Thelma Manning remembers Jones more fondly: "He had a little white shaggy-haired dog. They were inseparable. I want people to know Jim Jones had a good side...
...motto "Good for all night," went for $30. David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli, etc. The triumphant new owner, who paid $30 for it, identified herself as Geneva Hooker...
...card game winds down as dinner time nears. John starts talking about how he want to enlist in the Marines. They were the ones that won the war against Germany and the one against Korea, too, he says. The Marines are tough, demanding; they have pride. That reminds Thelma of a story about her sister-in-law's nephew who worked himself up to the position of colonel "and didn't go to military school or anything." The conversation and the card game end and students troop into the dining hall, clamoring for food...