Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader can follow the broad outlines of Mark Twain's hectic life-his days on a newspaper in Hannibal, Mo. (he worked for board and clothes), his career as printer in St. Louis, silver miner in Nevada, correspondent in the Sandwich Islands, river boat pilot on the Mississippi. Clemens fondly speaks of one "charmingly leisurely boat, the slowest on the planet. Upstream she couldn't even beat an island; downstream she was never able to overtake the current...
...scheduled in 1959: Mississippi, Kentucky and Virginia, where a special session convened last week to consider only court-ordered integration...
...Lawd. Guilty, Lawd. Thank you, Lawd," says Nancy Mannigoe, lifting her eyes serenely above the Mississippi bar of justice at which she stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While...
...CHECKS are increasing. In fiscal 1958 the FBI investigated $8,000,000 worth, including one check drawn on the "East Bank of the Mississippi...
...final 72-22 vote left only the extreme diehards of both the liberal and Southern sides in opposition. Thus such liberals as New York Republican Jacob Javits arid Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas found themselves isolated with such bitter-end Southerners as South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Mississippi's James Eastland...