Molly Ivins quotes

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 2/1/07, Peter Farruggio <pfarr at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> CAN ANYBODY ANSWER THIS?
>
> The challenge for today: The Washington Post's obituary for Molly
> Ivins says, "In 1982, after she used a colorful colloquialism to
> describe a local chicken-killing festival, the Times and Ms. Ivins
> recognized it was time to part ways."
>
> What did she say?

Other obit-writers weren't so coy. She called it a "gang pluck".

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-ivinsobit_0201gl.ART0.State.Edition1.296873c.html


--Ben Zimmer

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