Word: cottonmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impassable, railroads washed out, telephone lines down. The stench of death was everywhere. Victims' bodies were found in bushes, trees and rooftops; dead animals were scattered along the coast. Medicine was scarce, and there were fears of a typhoid epidemic. Pascagoula, Miss., was invaded by hundreds of poisonous cottonmouth snakes flooded out of swamps...
Independent Course. The roster of contributing poets includes Alan Dugan, Anne Sexton, John Ashbery, Rob ert Graves, and Richard Eberhart. But no single verse stands out as much as "Cottonmouth Country," some simple post-Lowellite lines by 24-year-old Louise Gluck...
...there were other signs That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us By land: among the pines An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss Reared in the polluted...
...years Dr. Snyder has performed this simple surgery on 32 patients, five bitten by cottonmouth moccasins and 27 by rattlesnakes. All have recovered. Obviously, excising a piece of flesh up to the size of a silver dollar is not practical in the head and neck region, Dr. Snyder concedes in the A.M.A. Journal, but most snake bites are on the hands, arms and legs...