Posted on 06/27/2003 5:48:56 AM PDT by hobbes1
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Today we mourn the passing of a Great American.
Americas Longest serving Senator, and War Hero, And a pretty manly man by any account
Senator Strom Thurmond.
rest in peace.
clymer adjective
Pronunciation: 'li-k(&-)rish
Date: 20th century
1. 1 : @SShole, but not your everyday garden variety butthole, One that truly deserves to be called "Major League"
2. Beneath Contempt
Etymology: Etymology: From campiagn trail 2000 from an observant remark by a remarkable candidate , . Date: 20th Century
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Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!
Here is my example with WFTD:
In the span of one week, Two men died. The First Lester Maddox, was one of the names that became synonomous with Racism in the 60s, but to read his obit in the NYTimes, you would not know it. OF course it took half of the Obit to get around to the fact that he was of course a Democrat.
In contrast, Americas longest serving Senator Died Last night, A man of many accomplishments he lived to be 100, Stormed the Beach at Normandy taking Nazis prisoner at the point of the Pistol, winning the Bronze star, and fathering children IN HIS Seventies.
What did the headline in the Times read..."Strom Thurmond Foe of Integration Dies at 100
The author????? Adam the clymer Clymer.
Giving Credence to the credibilty of The President and the Vice President, the manis truly a major league @$$hole.
Review Thread One
Review Thread Two
Hmmmm...In a post to yourself...does that mean you will be playing with......nevermind
Recess activity today is basketball. Croqs are shirts and the gals are skins today.
Nope, we were sleeveless cotton T-shirts.
That reminds me...
...You have to give the Brits credit, their political scene is seldom dull.
This was not my initial impression of Mr. Helms, when as a young boy in North Carolina during the civil rights movement I listened to his anti-integration, anti-Martin Luther King commentaries on WRAL-TV. But once the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s was enacted, Mr. Helms--along with some of his erstwhile segregationist colleagues like South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond--did something very revolutionary for Southern white populists.
They accepted the laws and obeyed them.
This is not how Southern politicians responded in the 1870s and 1880s. Populists like South Carolina's "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman did not just fulminate against civil rights laws. They led movements of armed, organized resistance, intimidating black voters at the polls, defending racial lynchings and, in Tillman's case, being directly and openly involved in the murder of black political leaders.
Even as the passions of the civil-rights movement were at their height, Messrs. Helms and Thurmond (whose father was Ben Tillman's lawyer) shunned violence. Without ever losing their credentials as hard-core defenders of Southern values, they hired African-American staffers and gave African-Americans the same level of constituency service they gave whites. Even their opposition to affirmative action is based on their claim that these principles violate what ought to be a color-blind stance on the part of the government.
That is something no white Southern politician, and especially one representing Mr. Helms' core supporters of farmers and small-town whites, would have ever said before Jesse Helms came along. It is something they all say now.
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