Word: delta
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Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...
After World War II, the Italian government posted 20-ft. watchtowers with searchlights along the watery plains of the Po River delta, set up a special new intelligence corps and dispatched motorized patrols to strategic spots in the hills of central Italy. The time had come, said the government, to break up the booming $8,000,000-a-year black market in Etruscan art objects. Beneath hill and plain lay buried treasure-the vases, statues and coins that the energetic Etruscans had placed in the tombs 25 centuries ago. This was part of the "national patrimony," said the government...
...Percy Howard) Newby, 39, is a puckish soldier turned professor, proletarian turned sahib. His The Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...
...dagger tale would seem unbelievable. But in the last two years the whole segregation controversy has had some strange and frightening effects on the Ole Miss campus at Oxford (pop. 3,956). Last week, in a series of articles on the morale of the university, the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times told just how serious those effects have been. Of 136 assistant, associate and full professors, 31 have resigned to seek "greener and freer pastures" elsewhere...
Concluded the Delta Democrat-Times from its interviews with the faculty: ''The fact that it is almost impossible to get good replacements [for those leaving] makes the situation even more alarming. After all, prospective recruits reason, why come to Mississippi for less money and less freedom...