Word: choctaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Choctaw Indians who invented it, lacrosse was a contest of skill and guts. To an unfamiliar spectator today, it is a game where the players try harder to decapitate one another with webbed sticks than to score goals...
Marine Lewis, a Choctaw girl from Mississippi, quit school four years ago at the age of 15 and then just stayed home. "Mostly," she says, "I slept...
...thicket 40 feet off State Highway 21 near the dank Bogue Chitto Swamp. The site, twelve miles northeast of Philadelphia, was in the opposite direction from which Deputy Price said he saw the civil rights workers going when they left Sunday night. By the time the law got there, Choctaw Indians from a nearby reservation had stripped three hubcaps from the station wagon...
Wallace dispatches a team of anthropologists and wives to study the perfect sexual harmony that exists among 200 noble savages on the Three Sirens islands. The islanders all seem to have read Choctaw editions of Havelock Ellis and orate in stiff English on the wonders of coeducational outhouses ("the one true democracy"), the Social Aid Hut where husbands suffering from frigid wives can go for relief, and the absurdity of necking. The invaders represent a spectrum of heterosexual appetites and respond to the natives' wisdom according to their own maladies. One shows the bored natives dirty pictures, another dances...
...made for love!" Funny thing was, Boykin really meant it. "God is love, see?" he explained. "He made everything, didn't he? So everything is made for love, get it?" He took genuine pleasure in doing favors for friends. He established a 100,000-acre game preserve in Choctaw County, to which he brought planeloads of folks from Washington and all points south. He could put them in 69 beds in his big house, and he loved to send them out hunting deer, wild turkey, quail, dove, wild boar and even buffalo...