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Word: hering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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And then there's the more complicated, less conscious evil of the Federal government. The U.S. isn't supposed to do business with companies that discriminate. But they've got contracts up to here with The American Can Company. The American Can Company has its own little company-run town...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

There are exactly two different kinds of peoples in the South: those who are just past the rich-enough line so they can have air conditioning in their house, their car, and their office, and those on the other side of the line who have to sweat all the time...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

I hate the glisteningly white, fat men that waddle through the narrow streets of New Orleans here. They come down from Alabama and Mississippi and upstate Louisiana to do drinking and get in their sin here. They go to strip shows and cackle and burp. They're drunk all the...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

The clouds here are wonderful. Because of the heat, they are piled up high vertically and the light then hits vertically and the light then hits them at different angles. They look like massive sand castles, and elephants, and horses, and lobsters floating through the sky. Every day like that...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

This is typical of conversations that you hear all the time down here. This one in particular took place in a food store here in the vieux carre:

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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