Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to focus the nations' attention on injustice--whether it involved the war in Vietnam or hungry children living in Mississippi," says Edward Kennedy. "He found such injustice unacceptable and inspired people to take action and do something about...
Townsend tells of a trip her father made to Mississippi in his capacity as the chair of the hunger committee. There he saw a family whose house was the size of his family's dining room. According to Townsend, Kennedy returned home profoundly disturbed by the contrast...
...party, with three former Republican National Committee chairmen, a Rockefeller and pundit Mary Matalin contributing. He has a primary challenger, a white businessman who quotes "Stonewall" Jackson and is married to a former county peanut queen, which should mean that party officials must remain neutral. But Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran is ignoring protocol, having stumped for Glenn last December and narrated his campaign video...
Huckleberry Finn, if grimly read, might be a caseworker's report on family dysfunction, child abuse, alcoholism, clan violence, stupidity, hypocrisy and institutionalized racial oppression--a sweet classic, maybe, but also a fairly accurate picture of life along the Mississippi in the mid-19th century...
...Crimson is no stranger to top seeds--just beating them. Last season, Harvard was pitted against eventual national champion Stanford and lost decisively, 0-4. The year before it was Mississippi State and the result was a similarly dismal 1-4 rout. This time around, the question remains as to whether Harvard--even without the services of Tom Blake--can pull out the upset and reach the round of the elite eight for the first time in the program's history...