Word: carcass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOUTHERN history books, says our Atlanta bureau chief, Joseph Kane, contain many references to dastardly "Yankee journalists" who went South to feed on the carcass of the vanquished Confederacy. The antipathy has lingered into modern times. But in reporting for this week's cover story on the new South and Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, Kane found as one sign of evolution a moderating attitude toward the press: "Even the courthouse gangs that run local politics are becoming more tolerant of itinerant reporters...
...carcass buried in sand...
Late Sunday night and into the early morning hours yesterday thousands of curiosity-seekers descended on Mannhill Beach, near Scituate, to view the carcass of a reported 30-foot, four-ton sea monster that had been washed ashore by Saturday evening's 11-foot mammoth high tide...
They have definitely determined that the carcass is that of a mangled basking shark, which may have died at sea and was partially eaten by other sea life as it drifted ashore...
...Hart sent Sieswerda to the Scituate scene to investigate the reports and try to preserve a part of the carcass for study. When he arrived there were about 250 college-age youths chanting and screaming...