Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill passed the House in the past two Congresses but was stymied in the Senate by Judiciary Chairman James Eastland of Mississippi. He insisted on dropping any criminal penalties and on allowing alien farm workers to be admitted if domestic labor is in short supply. The INS, organized labor and the Justice Department have come out in support of the Rodino bill, and even Eastland says that "the prospects are good this year" for its passage...
...independence fight at 19, and Rutiedge and Lynch signed the Declaration of South Carolina at 27-has there been a younger generation of Americans brighter, better educated, more highly motivated than this one. In the Peace Corps, in the Northern Student Movement, in Appalacia, on dusty roads in Mississippi, and narrow trails in the Andes, this generation of young people has shown an idealism and a devotion to country matched in few nations and excelled in none...
Connors grew up in East St. Louis and Belleville, Ill., the son of a toll booth manager on what is now called the Martin Luther King bridge, which spans the Mississippi River at St. Louis. James Connors Sr., though, was never the main influence in Jimmy's life, and the two appear to have an uneasy relationship. It was Jimmy's mother, a tournament player and teaching pro, who began tossing tennis balls at Connors when he was three. "I started him as soon as he could walk pretty well," recalls Gloria, still in her perky 40s. "Jimmy took...
...integrated the University of Mississippi...
...People would joke around--they didn't really mean to be cruel," she says. "But you can only stand just so much teasing about your accent in one day before you blow up. And they would say things like. Oh, do you have sidewalks in Mississippi? Do you wear shoes when you're down there...