Word: mississippis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the House firmly on record on civil rights, Senate backers were ready with a strategy for taking the Administration bill directly to the Senate floor, thus bypassing the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, Mississippi's James O. Eastland, and his Senate civil-rights bill guaranteeing trial by jury. Even if successful, this strategy could hardly bypass the Senate's proud penchant for unlimited debate. Probable outcome: more Southern oratory and a full-dess Senate filibuster that could doom civil-rights legislation for still another session...
...turned out, Faulkner and the students had plenty to say to each other. He had no formal teaching schedule, instead appeared before most of the university's graduate and undergraduate classes in English to read his labyrinthian fiction in a soft, gentle voice slurred slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often haphazard because "when the characters...
...Construction of a $65 million cantilever bridge across the Mississippi to New Orleans' undeveloped West Bank, fulfilling a century-old New Orleans dream of bridging the river...
...Desert's ocean of drifting sands on the north and Kipling's "great, grey-green, greasy" Limpopo River in this land unknown were geographical wonders to rival any in the world: great lakes as large as those in North America, rivers challenging in majesty the Amazon and Mississippi, crashing waterfalls higher and wider than Niagara, and snow-clad mountains on the equator's rim soaring skyward beyond any in Europe. And there today, in the limitless stretches of land over which these giants stood silent sentinel for centuries, is a whole new world of men suddenly awakened...
...however, that Cerastomella really caught hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus in another ten or twenty years...