Word: cumberlandism
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William Turner's characteristic abstract, impressionistic style comes across more effectively in his blue and grey wash of Solway Moss, Cumberland than in the resulting brown graphic illustration; the precise lines of etching and engraving have precluded the emotion of the dynamic Turner landscape...
Beautiful Cumberland. One of the greatest environmental treasures remaining to the nation is the brief, marshy Georgia coastline between Savannah and St. Marys. The jewels of this region are the unusual "barrier islands" and particularly Cumberland Island, which was recently designated a national seashore area. There was good reason for preserving it. Wild horses...
...every state can have a Cumberland, but many would like to try. And the Federal Government is now lending a helping hand. With the Congress, the Administration is trying to strike a balance between preserving U.S. shoreline areas as priceless natural resources and allowing carefully regulated maritime and industrial development. Some wetlands experts have suggested "single use" laws for coastal areas: industry in a given state would be concentrated in one shore area, people in another and wildlife in yet another...
More digging revealed that Ashman had indeed earned a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland College, but that in 1964, while practicing in Florida, he was convicted of passing bad checks and forced out of the state bar association. Transferred from jail to a state mental hospital, he spent two years before being paroled on condition that he remain in Florida until 1969 for psychiatric treatment...
...serving 99 years for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and vows that he will never escape. Indeed, Ray, 42, would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better now, but only a masochist would try to get away. Ray's isolated world consists of his cellblock's 21 other inmates, some of them blacks. Up at 5:30 a.m., he spends...