Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody in or out for 24 hours, and the Nickerson case...
Both economic necessity and natural inclination, caused Southerners in the post-bellum years to turn their educational energies toward developing a group of distinctively Southern schools. In this they were partially successful, but the limitations of educational provincialism became only too apparent...
Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South-the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness...
...somewhere in pre-revolutionary Russia; in Wescott's The Pilgrim Hawk, the liberation and recovery of a hunting falcon in the garden of an expatriate lady somewhere in France; and in Faulkner's The Bear, the pursuit of an unusually large bear in the boondocks of post-bellum Mississippi...
...such as Britain's famed Body-snatchers Burke and Hare committed murder to supply the anatomists' demand, and added the word "burking" to the language. Even today, in some Southern states, mothers threaten naughty children with "the night doctor will get you"-a reference to the ante-bellum breed of burkers...