Word: yorkerisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing this?" asked a woman in the fast-swelling crowd. Speaking in hesitant Russian, 24-year-old New Yorker Vicky Rovere answered: "Because of my conscience." It was not a satisfactory answer. Another woman shouted "Provocateur!" and a third tried to lead Vicky away. Most of the leaflets were torn up. Within five minutes the police arrived, and Vicky tossed her remaining leaflets high in the air. Immediately, she was punched hard in the stomach by an elderly man. "That," she said, "was not very nice of you." Across the square, Andrew Papworth, also 24, and sporting a T shirt...
...Minneapolis last weekend a group of about fifteen prominent anti-Administration politicians met to try to tie together what has happened since the convention and what might come about in the future. Among them were a few of the new stars of 1968 like Allard K. Lowenstein, the New Yorker who founded the Dump Johnson campaign and put together a McCarthy-dominated Coalition for an Open Convention last summer with some Kennedy support, Julian Bond of Georgia, and Donald O. Peterson, the Wisconsin delegation chairman who refused to buckle under to Mayor Daley...
...turn on the steam heat in the room of an elderly Negro patient in the psychotic ward. He claims that they not only refused, but retaliated by forcing him to spend a few days-naked -in a chilly cubicle with a stone floor, known as "the hole." When New Yorker Sullivan was ordered to increase his work output one day, he turned to his foreman and said: "I quit." He spent two weeks in solitary...
...Rockefeller. "Nelson Rockefeller," he said again and again, "is the man best qualified to be President." In response to "the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing," he sponsored a draft-Rockefeller organization, flying around the country in a Rockefeller-chartered plane to sing the New Yorker's praises. He was still singing when Rocky pulled out of the race on March...
...watch the Governor's press conference on TV. Through some incredible oversight in New York, no one had bothered to inform Rockefeller's most ardent admirer that Nelson was about to quit the race instead. Agnew had to bear his disappointment and humiliation in public. Though the New Yorker apologized handsomely, Agnew never forgave him. Nixon became more and more attractive...