Word: mississippi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...immediately voted back into office by his delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a "puppy," and about 30 Congressmen, fortified by alcohol, began a free-for-all. In the excitement, John Potter of Wisconsin grabbed William Barksdale of Mississippi by the hair and pulled off his wig. "Hooray, boys!" Potter yelled. "I've got his scalp...
Abraham Lincoln compared its power to the surging Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence...
...week progressed, Schroeder, as if inspired by the new kid on the ward, seemed to improve dramatically. According to Lansing, he was initiating conversation, pronouncing difficult words like Mississippi, counting correctly and, perhaps most important, "laughing more." New dentures apparently eased things for him. Though prospects for a complete recovery of speech and mental functions remained slight, doctors were once again talking about transferring Schroeder to the transitional home, perhaps as early as this week...
...ferocity. Mim, in her mid-20s, has led a luxurious but troubled life. Her first marriage, to Cousin Georges Benoir, ended in a car crash that killed one of the world's most dashing multimillionaires and the father of her son. Her second union, to a Governor of Mississippi named Davis Davis, proved a three-month debacle. Her honeymoon with Castleton has been acceptable; now she anxiously awaits the arrival of her older brother Armand, who is bringing her delicate little boy back from France to live with his newest stepfather...
...University of Minnesota dropout, Jacobs started working full time in 1959 for his father, a Russian immigrant, who ran a gunnysack business. In the mid-'60s the company flourished, selling sandbags used to dam floods along the Mississippi. Jacobs early showed a trader's instinct, buying merchandise at business liquidation sales and reselling it. At 18, he got 300 pairs of skis at a U.S. Customs auction for $13 a pair, then sold them right outside the auction hall for three times as much...