Word: cumberlandism
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...woolly worms are scarce this year, maybe because of the two-month dry spell, the one that induced the maples, oaks and sycamores marching high up the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau to skip turning red and gold and go straight to dead, brittle brown. The worms that have been found, however, are solid black, while the hornets are building their nests close to the ground, and the spiders are sticking together, weaving their webs nearly on top of one another. Taken together, these and other signs mean the coming winter "is going to be a humdinger," says Helen Lane...
John Weisenmiller was born in Cumberland, Md., and moved to Massachusetts in the '50s. He had been married for 43 years at the time of his death...
...biggest political contest of all in an era that loves talk-show confessionals--a time when even the British royals are expected to loosen up or lose their jobs. Gore, in fact, has a lot of Prince Charles in him, a vestige of the style of upper Cumberland, Tenn., "that emphasizes formalism in public presentation," he told TIME last week. "I think I absorbed that, but I'm slowly learning how to transcend it." Until that happens, Gore's famous stiffness and failure to grasp the trick of compelling self-presentation are no small problem. His own boss...
...between his tenure at the Justice Department and his time at the Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution in Maryland, Hubbell tried to open a little Washington law practice. Almost immediately, work began trickling in. First he was hired by Indonesia's Lippo Group, which reportedly offered him $250,000 a year for work that remains a mystery. Next, at the suggestion of a Democratic fund raiser, the Los Angeles Airport Commission paid him $8,250 a month to lobby the Transportation Department. These were lucky breaks for a lawyer facing possible criminal charges. Republicans have wondered aloud whether these jobs were...
HELEN LANE, amateur predictor Forecast: One of the "worst" winters in years for Tennessee. Perhaps 10 heavy snows. Methodology: Cumberland Plateau fogs. Following a family tradition that goes back generations, the septuagenarian counts the number of heavy, early-morning fogs in August...