Word: abner
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Wallace Constituency. Last fall Jackson pointedly campaigned on behalf of many liberal candidates, including Father Robert F. Drinan of Massachusetts, Allard Lowenstein of New York, Abner Mikva of Illinois and Gary Hart of Colorado, who was McGovern's campaign manager; of the four, only Lowenstein lost. Albeit somewhat reluctantly, Jackson also supported liberal reforms of the party's delegate selection rules at the mini-convention in Kansas City in December. So far, however, his efforts apparently have brought few liberals into his camp...
...Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after the foul-smelling factory in Li'l Abner, he also played a crucial role in developing spy satellites, electronic jamming and other cloak-and-dagger technologies...
...early '50s Li'I Abner, with its fantastic animals, the best known being the Shmoo. had for nearly 20 years proved that whimsy and literacy could be popular. Walt was no imitator: he was one of the most original humorists of our time. But Li'l Abner had prepared the public for his genius...
Since Li'l Abner began to satirize the lunacies of liberalism, it has been written out of comic-strip history in the manner of Nineteen Eighty-Four. To those liberals who fear 1984. I suggest Walt's immortal line. "We have met the enemy...
...learn the language but found that "my teacher only taught me strictly formal Japanese when I needed a baseball way of talking." So he has adopted a kind of baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains...