Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people from outside the South gave much thought to his concert. Most Harvard students did not know who Jerry Jeff was. Progressive country music--much less real country western--has never been very popular in this area. But on Friday, October 21, thousands of expatriates from Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and other rural states poured into the Harvard Square Theater to stomp their feet and clap their hands at some of Jerry Jeff's fiddle music and heave an occassional sigh at his more melanchology tunes about home and the good life away down South...
...pretty girl, and it was obvious she worked hard at it. She came from Texas, had gone to boarding school in Vickburg, Mississippi, and now she was a freshman at Hampshire College. She hated it. It seems her roommates made fun of her make-up, her politics, her attitudes towards sex, and the flirtatious, coy way she acted around men. "All my friends went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)," she said. "I don't know why I wanted to come up here. I guess it was pressure from my parents. I'm different. I'm not like everybody else...
...have been economically justified, even a historical necessity, but it is a current indignity for Panamanians. As Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez told Carter: "The Panamanians feel exactly about the Canal Zone as North Americans would feel if the British owned the Mississippi River." In fact, Americans had much the same attitude as contemporary Panamanians when the Spanish and French (not the British) controlled the Mississippi at the turn of the 19th century. In 1956 America supported Egyptian sovereignty and condemned the British and French attempt to recover the Suez Canal...
...statement is the fear that things could go poorly for feminists in Houston. Antiabortionists, members of the Total Woman movement and other conservatives have elected between 15% and 20% of the state delegates to the meeting. The Ku Klux Klan claims to control at least one official state delegation-Mississippi's-and has threatened to disrupt the meeting. Summed up one delegate: "It's kind of a reverse '60s, with the regressive forces threatening to disrupt us." But Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary and now a top leader in the ERA drive...
...sort of Communist. She drummed up attendance to party rallies with flame-colored flyers that read: CHICKEN DINNERS LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE. FREE-FLOWING LIQUOR. 20 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 20. Whether investigating police brutality in Oakland in the '40s or leading a White Women's Delegation to Mississippi to appeal the case of convicted Rapist Willie McGee in 1951, Mitford the Marxist seemed to operate with a touch of what she called "high jinks." Missions might be missions, but why could they not also be "a thrilling adventure," or at least "a welcome breather from diapers and housework...