Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president of Alabama Power Co., Thomas W. Martin, knows much of Southern Regions (a 603-page book) by heart. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon is said to have studied it in preparation for taking office. A well-thumbed copy stands beside the Bible in many a local sheriff's office. It inspired at least ten other major books (e.g., Gerald Johnson's The Wasted Land). It also won the distinction of being banned by Georgia's gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge. Thanks to Dr. Odum, Southerners talk frankly and learnedly about once unmentionable taboos: hookworm...
...amidships. Later the Navy said that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most of her planes still aboard. Aboard the Lexington, radio receivers and loudspeakers caught the happy voice of Lieut. Commander Robert Dixon, leading a bomber squadron: "Scratch one flattop, scratch one flat...
...prospective WAACs sighed with relief to find that the Army does not intend to design it. Miss Dorothy Shaver, vice president of Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, has charge of that momentous problem. Permitted to watch, as Mrs. Hobby was crisply sworn in, was Mr. Hobby. Said Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News: "If ever a man looked as if he was saying to himself what-the-hell-am-I-doing-here, it was Mr. Hobby...
...piece of writing of the decade. It should be placed verbatim in every schoolbook; it should be bound in every library. It should be hung on the walls of U.S.O. "huts," and recruiting centers. It makes my eyes smart with pride that I have nationality in common with Pilot Dixon. . . . My god, what...
...Captain Bligh wished to shake hands with the one that "really" was responsible for pulling [the three Navy flyers] thru, I fear it would not be "Dixon." . . . "Aldrich" was not a gabby sort, in fact, he was, and is, very quiet. . . . Another thing, he never addressed or spoke of his father as his "old man." And I do not care for anyone else to address his father in that manner either. ... It was Aldrich, even tho a "lad" that provided the most of the food on that voyage. It was he who sighted the islet. . . . You see, I received...