Word: copperheads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community. A dirt road meandered off toward the mountain where a bootleg still supplied whisky to the men of the countryside, and another dirt road ran to the creek. My cousin Kenneth and I would sit on the bank and fish with earthworms. One day we killed a copperhead which was basking on a rock near by. That was unusual...
...what they call "smart" weapons; I guess I ought to say "smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
...friends and even his in-laws, who favored intervention. His hero's luster dulled. Novelist J.P. Marquand, a friend, explained indulgently, "You've got to remember that all heroes are horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve, and after Pearl Harbor, F.D.R. refused to take him back. Instead, Lindbergh became a technical consultant for Ford and later for United Aircraft. By 1944, he finagled his way to the Pacific as a consultant and, though a civilian, managed...
...passage of virtuoso understatement, Miss Dillard meticulously records the death of a small frog sucked dry by a giant water bug, and with eerie calm reports an afternoon she spent sitting beside a copperhead. "Evolution loves death more than it loves you and me," she quietly concludes. And as the very fecundity of this "eggy animal world" seems to hurry toward its equally profuse extinction, Miss Dillard mercilessly brings on bridge-battering floods and hemlock-bending whirlwinds. Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and "the waste of pain" but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament...
Boots and belts, hats and handbags, shirts, shawls, coats and evening gowns, even linens, lampshades and wallpaper - all bear the stamp of the serpent. Genuine cobra can be had as a raincoat, simulated copperhead as upholstery fab ric. And women known to keel over at a photograph of a python are now swaddling themselves in the real thing...