Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety. Even federal drug experts are impressed. "A good deal of expertise goes into producing that kind of plant," notes Dr. Carlton Turner, director of marijuana research for the National Institute of Drug Abuse at the University of Mississippi...
...MISSISSIPPI (June 6). The retirement of Democrat James Eastland, 73, after 36 years in the Senate has opened the floodgates. John Stennis, 76, is Mississippi's other Senator, and the state has not seen a real race for the upper house in 31 years. Now seven eager Democrats and two Republicans are seeking Eastland's seat. The most prominent contender is Governor Cliff Finch, 51, a gladhanding populist who enjoys support among rural whites and urban blacks. But any Governor makes enemies, and three Democrats have a shot at upsetting Finch: his predecessor, former Governor Bill Waller...
...Year 2525." 5] Will McEnaney [1975, '76], Ralph Terry [1960, '62], Bob Gibson [1964, '67]. 6]1954 Yankees, 1961 Tigers. 7] Hobie Landrith. 8] Don Shaw. 9] Carl Taylor. 10] Bruce Kison. 11] Jay Mazzone. 12] Ross Moschitto. 13] Broken bat groundout to shortstop. 14] Jake Gibbs [Q.B. at Mississippi, 1963]. 15] Minnie Rojas. 16] Mike McCormack. 17] Norm Zauchin [1958]. 18] Cesar Guttierez of the Tigers. 19] .243 20] "The Little Putt Putt." 21] Jimmy Rosario. 22] Joe Sparma flushed them down the toilet. 23] Frank Robinson. 24] Light blue. 25] Jimmy Qualls...
Hannah's forte is spinning tall tales around short people. His characters seem to have been stunted and stunned by life; they are accidents wandering around, trying to find out why they happened. Fate denies them selfdiscovery, sometimes in ludicrous ways. A Mississippi-born tennis pro falls into a river and comes close enough to drowning to survive only as a vegetable. The Oedipal tangle that led to his accident will never be his to grasp...
Canards have so persisted that many untraveled Americans might be surprised to learn that millions of Southerners hate grits and could not quote the King James if threatened with hellfire. Scholars often fail to see that actual Mississippi is related to Yoknapatawpha County only as the tones of the musical scales are related to the symphonies of Beethoven. Even the grating H.L. Mencken did not manage to cut through the spoon bread. After a smart assessment of the Sahara of the beauxarts, Mencken paused to mourn the passing of a more "cultured" South that existed only in legend...