Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament, hosted by the Crimson, included some of the best teams from around the country, including Clemson, Indiana, North Carolina, Mississippi, Princeton, Syracuse and William & Mary...
...wanted to visit Mississippi for a long time before this summer--not just to reminisce, but also because my memories were slipping away...
...used to know a young girl named Hess Worsham who lived across the street at home. I heard on the national news that Hess one of the sorority sisters killed by a reckless driver during a walk-a-thon for the University of Mississippi. And I simply couldn't remember...
Later that day I visited a tremendous first-grade dancer. She has parlayed her talents into a place on the baton-twirling squad on the University of Mississippi marching band...
...full of vivid images, freshly rendered. Here is the runaway slave facing the Ohio River, which stands between her and liberation: "Sethe was looking at one mile of dark water, which would have to be split with one oar in a useless boat against a current dedicated to the Mississippi hundreds of miles away." Here are Sethe, Denver and Beloved enjoying a rare moment of pleasurable abandon on a frozen lake: "Their skirts flew like wings and their skin turned pewter in the cold and dying light...