Word: meridian
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Soon this small bird, native only to Texas, may be just a footnote in an ornithology textbook-another species that failed to adapt to man. One of its last retreats is Meridian State Park, a 461-acre tangle of cedar breaks and cactus populated by rattlesnakes, red-spotted toads, tarantulas and a steady flock of hardy bird watchers who come to catch a glimpse of the warbler. Now the local Lakeview Recreation Association plans to build a nine-hole golf course right in the middle of the warbler's nesting ground...
...headline from the Meridian Star, Meridian Mississippi...
After an 86-year-old white woman was raped in Meridian, Miss., in 1965. she could say only that her assailant was a Negro youth. During the next ten days, Meridian police resorted to the "dragnet" technique-stopping and questioning nearly 75 young Negroes at random. Many were fingerprinted, questioned and released. The Fourth Amendment bars any search or seizure without probable cause. But as it turned out, the fingerprints of one of the Negroes, John Davis, then 14, matched a set found on the windowsill of the victim's home. He was tried and subsequently convicted...
There was little doubt that Mississippi would deliver heavily for George Wallace, and it did, giving him over 80 per cent of the popular vote in that state. All five Democratic incumbents, running for re-election to the House won easy victories, with G. V. Montgomery of Meridian turnback former Congressman Prentiss Walker in the only seriously contested race in the state...
Granted, many of the schools are exactly as Mr. Fallows claims, but the school in which I taught summer school this past summer (Carver Junior High, all Negro, located in Meridian, Mississippi) has one of the finest physical facilities in the state. The school is less than five years old, has a complete system of air-conditioning, has readily available movie projectors, record players, amphitheaters, and is even in possession of a video-tape machine...