Word: caning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final days of the siege, the people of Vicksburg ate rats, cane shoots and bark. For 47 days Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ringed the city with 75,000 Union troops. Cannon balls crashed in; the sound of musketry seldom died. Finally the city surrendered. The date was July 4, 1863. After that, for the people of Vicksburg, the Fourth of July was never a day to be celebrated...
Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the President: "Oh, fiddlesticks. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come...
Leaning heavily on his cane and shuffling toward the door, Henry Lytton sang the words again. And he sang...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...