Word: mississippis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affected the state of the national Faith. I'm almost positive that some Faith was lost when Governor Rhodes of Ohio told us that the demonstrators at Kent State were "worse than Nazi scum," and then watched the National Guard murder four of them. More Faith disappeared when the Mississippi State Police blasted student demonstrators at Jackson State and then told an ambulance driver to "come pick up a couple of dead niggers." But these are small events. They alone couldn't be responsible for all the missing Faith...
Night cracks day in Indiana; the sky explodes in Illinois. Chicago passes--a straining of the eye through the white glare of churned downpour. The Mississippi folds under a sheet-white concrete bridge with the decorum of 1 a.m. silence. Iowa flows through the early morning on the wave-crackling radio...
...Orieans". He was answering my question pobliquely; that is to say, he was saying he was happy. He had just combleted a sort of spiritual apprenticeship another, older photographeer who had spent his life taking pictures of old plantations crumbling to dust and being overtaken by vines up the Mississippi River a ways, and it was all starting to make sense to my friend...
Such acceptance is a fragile thing, of course, easily swept away in the morning mists by the caprices of Arabs or Asians or even one of the Capitol Hill dragons, like Mississippi Senator James Eastland. But right now Ford has pre-empted Georgetown dinner talk, set covetous social climbers to plotting White House entries, and made Congressmen and influence peddlers worry about what is on his mind...
...greatest thing New Orleans has to offer is a step into the past, not a cheesy replica of it," complained TV talk Master Dick Cavett. Accompanied by his wife, Mississippi-born Actress Carrie Nye, Cavett had come to New Orleans for a visit and found that some favorite landmarks were missing. "People who live here all the time maybe don't notice it, but it's heartbreaking," said Cavett after surveying the rubble of the historic St. Charles Hotel and the debris of the French Market renovation. "Don't they understand they're destroying an international...