Word: united states of america
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...live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel they're in another world." But this other world is always informed by Disney's background, brought to life in the view of Mainstreet USA as you enter the park. Here the basic unit of small town nineteenth-century America seems to epitomize for Disney all that is happy. Interestingly, these are false buildings with real stores. This idealized version of Disney's hometown. Marceline, Kansas, was wrenched out of years of struggle in Disney's life. Disney was brought up on a farm, beaten...
...human endurance and decreed that the last marchers must pass the reviewing stand at the White House before sun down. To underline America's pacific intentions, the customary show of rockets and tanks and guns was banned; the armed forces' participation was limited to one division apiece, plus small representations from the service academies. Each state, moreover, was held to a Governor's car, one float, one band and one marching unit, although Texas and Minnesota, in homage to the President and Vice President, were awarded an extra band each...
...immediate aim of the MCGS is to help win unanimous public support for Johnson's vision of a greater America. Once he is satisfied that Massachusetts is thoroughly sold on the Great Society, Mr. Portlist hopes to turn the MCGS into a public relations unit working on behalf of other worthy causes in the state...
...voting districts so rigged that although his choice for governor in 1954 won only 36.6 percent of the popular vote, he was a landslide winner under the state's county unit system.) But bloc voting is only one of the NAACP's crimes. They are also opposed to poll-taxes, have a powerful lobby, and hold parties where whites are sometimes seen dancing with Negroes. The NAACP is a terrible menace to America. ("They take the same attitude about swimming pools. If they can't swim with the White people, they don't want to swim. And they...
...mechanic stepped from a transport plane at a captured Sicilian airdrome, shouted to the others in his unit: "If you see any natives, just say 'Come state?' and they'll say 'Bene, Bene.' " His name was Italian, his parents, in America, were Italian, and he added: "I've got a grandmother somewhere around here...