Word: bayous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the low coasts of Texas and Louisiana the tides were abnormally high. Rivers began to run backwards; water from Lake Pontchartrain poured back into the Mississippi. Up & down the coast, from the bayous of Terrebonne Parish to the islands off Texas, the people began to move to high ground...
Lady From Louisiana (Republic) suggests that the land of the bayous was ripe for plucking long before the advent of Kingfish Huey Long. It also records the triumph of a 19th-Century Thomas E. Dewey (John Wayne) over one of Dewey's favorite rackets-the lottery...
...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...
...long winter days indoors were prepared for and expected. But ice on the bayous, icicles festooning the palmettos, and sleet blowing through the cracks in Negro cabins, made a snowbound Dixie that no poets praised. Unused to driving in such weather, Southern motorists banged fenders, skidded into telephone poles, stalled in ditches and drifts along the highways. Manhattan Columnist Ward Morehouse, driving across Georgia and South Carolina, reported that abandoned cars lay along the roads all the way. Unused to walking on such streets, Southern pedestrians sprawled and staggered, were late to work and filled the personal columns of their...