Word: bayous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Texas-born Henry Frnka had a hankering for Texas material, especially big, hard-playing fellows. In his fourth year at Tulane he had succeeded in coming by 20 of them, complete with boots and ten-gallon hats. He also beat Louisiana's bayous for likely looking lads and signed on 20 more including a hulking 280-lb. Cajun tackle named Jerome Helluin. Frnka housed his athletes in the new $250,000 athletic hall across from the Sugar Bowl, fed them rare steaks and fined them when they broke his training rules. On the strength of size, reserve strength...
...months grim-faced Cajun shrimpers practiced on the bayous, in their tricky, pencil-shaped boats. The Cajuns of Louisiana's lower marshlands take their yearly pirogue race as seriously as Kentucky takes its Derby. This week on sultry Bayou Barataria, the 29 strongest paddlers lined up for the start...
...Real Jazz, Panassie tells us hot music is a finite thing which attained its unalterable shape at the time Buddy Bolden was assaulting the bayous with his battered cornet, and that any musician not conforming to the recognized shape is most certainly "not in the idiom" and most likely a "show-off." What Panassie and his "purist" cronies fail to understand is that hot music was born, nursed and grown to manhood, struggling all the time against a frigid environment, and that its whole course of development has been and will be largely a result of this environment...
...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...
...could have saved many lives. So he built an expensive, well-equipped machine shop on his estate, hired experienced workers, on the fourth try put a lumbering boxlike four-ton monster through its paces. With a terrible roar it clambered through mangrove swamps, crunched eight-inch trees, splashed over bayous. Donald promptly named his new machine Alligator, went to work on bigger & better models...