Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uses the words "pseudo-intellectual", "bearded, and "Negro" as derogatory expletives. He's the only person I've seen use the first term since George Wallace gave it its new meaning of small town paranoia. The author throws in that a drug user is bearded over twenty times in his book when giving no other physical description of the person or of any other people he mentions...
CHARLES DE GAULLE has always laid claim to an extraordinary, almost mystical empathy with the French people. As France lay gripped by the worst economic paralysis in its peacetime history and cries for his resignation echoed in the streets of every major French city and town, that claim seemed destined, along with his once-proud Fifth Republic, for the dustbin of history. But last week, summoning all his genius for leadership, De Gaulle once more commanded the French people to heed his will for France. Astonishingly, once again they listened...
Though Lindsay's proposed increase was later trimmed to 25% in the state legislature, the Big Board was ready to make up with the Big Town only last week. Following legislation of a tax compromise, Exchange President Robert Haack announced that a search for a new site in Manhattan was being "expedited." Under the new measure, New Yorkers will continue to pay the current tax-1 ½ to 5 a share, depending on share prices-but out-ot-state stock sellers can look forward to a 50% cut in the tax over a five-year period beginning...
...Welch, 61, portly good-humor man, whose nationally syndicated column, "The Squirrel Cage," appeared in 32 newspapers around the country; of a heart attack; in Seattle. With a combination of humor and an acid pen, Welch attacked the wrongs of the world, created "Happy" Digby, whose bouts with small-town authority were followed by Saturday Evening Post readers for more than 14 years...
Josh Arnold is 17, going on adulthood, and grown up everywhere but in the head. When his father volunteers for the Navy in World War II, Josh and his decaying Southern-belle mama go off to wait at the family summer place in Corazón Sagrado, a tiny town in the mountains of New Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar...