Word: acadianational
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Thoreau had but this one olive green suit (though surely he should choose some fruit more Acadian to characterize its hue). Receiving the countenance of an understanding faculty, Thoreau took a grim delight in his impunity...
...they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide neck of land in the quiet Acadian country of Nova Scotia, they left one of the most remarkable villages in North America...
Fortunately, Mr. Acadian, despite his slack-lipped way of called the Yard, the "Yard," comes up with a solution, and a darn good one it it, too. A football game with Yale why not? I have the cutes raccoon coat, and a cunning little hip flash knocking around somewhere in the back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these...
...political acumen of Sam Houston Jones, 42, accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...
...Raceland, in Louisiana's trench speaking Acadian community, Freddie John's fiancée, Waitress Louise St. Germaine of Napoleonville was heartbroken. His father showed the boy's last letter...