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...tell 'ya, it's crazy with Nixon..." The voice trailed off and continued in a lower tone, indistinguishable amidst the screeching of the trolley. After appearing to listen for several seconds, the driver shouted back with agitation...
...least one of Dayan's Cabinet col leagues seemed to agree. Minister of Justice Ya'acov Shimshon Shapiro, fearing the adverse impact that Dayan may have on the Labor Party's chances, last week urged Mrs. Meir to fire the general for failing to prepare the army for the attack. Dayan then offered to resign, but the Premier refused to accept his resignation. Later, the leadership of the Labor bloc censured Shapiro for suggesting that Dayan should go. "I told Moshe Dayan that he enjoys my full confidence," said Mrs. Meir, adding that "lessons to be learned...
...aren't. Clipped consonants and brassy vowels being the mark of the intelligentsia, my polysyllabic pronunciation of single vowels had to change. In order to be accepted as an intellectual equal, Southern women must learn to enunciate as quickly and sharply as their Northern counterparts. Southernisms such as "Are ya'll goin' to the show?" must become "Are you guys going to the movies?" In social situations, Southern women with thick or even moderate accents are victims of good-natured bantering, but the assumptions underlying the bantering aren't so kind. As a Confederate compatriot of mine remarked during...
...Sorrento--"Whadda ya mean? Oakland. In six. Who else...
...live right, he only makes the citizens more suspicious. They are resentful in some vague way, and the sheriff, Mean John ("But only my friends can call me that") Simpson, is disbelieving. "I seen boys like you before," he tells Bickford, "and there's no good in ya...