Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emma moved steadily westward, then veered northward off the Virgin Islands. Meteorologists figured that she would probably keep on going northward-as most Caribbean hurricanes have done before -through a low-pressure trough created by two high-pressure banks. But the "highs" converged so fast that the big 'cane's northward path was blocked. For six hours, she stood ominously still near the Bahamas. When she started to roll again, she headed westward, straight for Florida's southeast Gold Coast...
Along 25 miles of the old Spanish trail between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, Miss., hardly a building was left standing. Sea walls buckled. Gulf coast beaches and roads were littered with poisonous water moccasins, blown and washed in from marshy offshore islands. Thousands of acres of sugar cane were flattened. Tidal waters flooded Louisiana's bayou country. New Orleans got a day-long battering which left it a-clutter with twisted autos, broken power lines, shattered windows...
...heads at all were broken as the Orange parade swung through Belfast. Some blood, however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...
...such fast maneuvering, slender, affable Ferd Owen, 58, has become the biggest mule and horse trader in the U.S. His natty suits, hickory cane, and diamond stickpin (shaped like a mule's head) belie his origin as the fifth of nine sons of a poor Missouri farmer. Ferd went to school for only six months. At 15, he went into business for himself as a "road trader," driving all over the Midwest in a covered wagon and swapping animals with farmers along the road. That sharpened his trader's eye; now he can tell an animal...
...tangled with a live power line and electrocuted himself. A fortnight ago, a U.S. sentry shot and fatally wounded a Liberian who had climbed into the barracks. One day the guard detachment found itself encircled by 100 Liberians armed with knives, rocks and clubs (and breathing fumes of fermented cane juice...