Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waiting, the woman in the red dress began to raise her automatic. Near a magnolia tree, Ford paused to shake some hands. He was actually stretching his hand out to the woman in red, according to some witnesses, when he froze for an instant. "I saw a hand coming up between several others in the front row," Ford would later recall, "and obviously there was a gun in that hand." She was no more than 2 ft. away from the big man who made such an easy target. She cried out: "The country is in a mess! This...
...Life, appeared in 1962, the year of William Faulkner's death. The coincidence was not lost on litterateurs. Ever since, Price has been the odds-on favorite of those who believe that the U.S. must always have a Southern writer-in-residence whispering of dark doings behind the magnolia. This dreadnought of a family saga (Price's fourth novel) proves that he has earned the title. It is also strong evidence that the post is obsolete...
...things. In one car was a cage with an African parrot and a box of tame squirrels and a hunchback! Everybody, not excepting the parrot, was wrought up to a pitch of intense excitement." As the Confederacy was closing down, a woman diarist wrote in wonderful magnolia prose: "There they go, the gay and gallant few, the last flower of Southern manhood...
...Kissinger has helped focus Ford's views on foreign policy, in domestic matters the President sometimes forgets the larger view now required of him as President. At his press conference, held in the Rose Garden to the accompaniment of a mockingbird in a magnolia tree, Ford candidly spoke his mind and twice got into trouble. Asked about the racial violence in Boston schools, he unwisely said that he disagreed with the court-ordered busing that caused the strife, thus appearing to ally himself with the white demonstrators (see story page 22). Then, asked whether he favored phasing...
...been quietly putting his winnings into a lower octane brand of racing. Last week the three-time Indianapolis 500 champion laid down $21,500 for two thoroughbred colts at the Keeneland, Ky., fall yearling sale. The new additions to Foyt's stable of quarter and show horses in Magnolia, Texas, will be out on the tracks next year sporting A.J.'s red and white colors. "I can't race all my life," says Foyt. "Probably I'll race another three or four years and then own cars, but I'd like to maybe...