Word: bayous
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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...
...strange, half-submerged wilderness of southern Louisiana, people who live along the bayous came into the little towns: French-speaking Cajuns with their families, alligator hunters, Chinese shrimp fishermen, muskrat trappers, oil drillers, smugglers. Almost every community bore the scars of some earlier storm. Children around Port Lavaca, Tex. had played in the ruins of Indianola (once considered a rival of New Orleans), which was blown off the map in 1886. In 1893, while dwellers on the shore of Barataria Bay south of New Orleans were dancing to celebrate the end of a storm, mountainous waves suddenly swept over, wiped...
...Blue side, the red-necks became front-line troops-in a tradition that was old at Cerro Gordo. Sweating, plastered with swamp mud, drenched with rain, they built bridges alongside spans that umpires' flags had marked blown up. They picked up tank mines, destroyed barricades, bridged rivers and bayous with pontons or spanned them with felled trees. When they had finished, Louisiana had more usable bridges than it had ever had before. All along the Blue front, fighting troops advanced to the scream of the engineers' power saws and the grunt of their powerful bulldozers...
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...