Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi (6-0)-drubbed tough Arkansas, 28-0, as Charlie Flowers scored twice to boost his All-America candidacy...
...Money God. Like a singular breed of evil locusts, Flem Snopes and his clan showed up in Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County at precisely the moment when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because...
...Mississippi (5-0)-toyed with tepid Tulane...
...Miss America, Mississippi's custom-made (36-24-36) Lynda Lee Mead, 20, got a roaring welcome-home parade in her home town of Natchez (pop. 29,200) from some 50,000 curbsiders. In Jackson, state legislators, elated over Mississippi misses copping the Miss America crown two years in a row, passed a resolution commending Lynda Lee, authorized issuance of special, optional license plates for cars' front bumpers (price: $1). The legend: "Mississippi, Home of Miss Americas, Land of Beautiful Women...
...Mississippi-born, Tulane-educated Dr. Carl Edward Sills, 27, interning in Jackson, Miss., passed through Plains every time he drove along Highway 280 to visit his in-laws in Savannah. To both Carl and Elizabeth Hadden Sills, Plains looked like the kind of place where they wanted to settle. In the middle of an April night, they broke a Savannah-Jackson journey, talked to Dr. Logan and James Carter, 35, the town's biggest businessman. Assured that there was plenty of scope to build a practice and that the townspeople would cooperate, the Sillses soon made their decision...