Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause of the worst flood in the history of Mississippi's capital city was a series of torrential rains (19 in.) during the week before Easter. The runoff water threatened to burst the Barnett Dam, forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to make a hard choice: 1) it could restrain the flow, gambling that the dam would hold, but risking a catastrophe if it did not; 2) it could ease pressure by releasing controlled amounts of water, pushing the Pearl over its levees and into Jackson. It chose the second...
Meanwhile, two environmentalists yesterday blamed federal works projects for contributing to the record floods in Mississippi and Alabama...
...room six years ago, tried this argument on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The court rejected it, and last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The Spenkelink decision is important. The Fifth Circuit covers the six Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) that have 75% of all the prisoners now on death row. It means that Spenkelink has nearly exhausted all possible legal remedy, and scores of inmates in other Southern states are closer to death. There will be no sudden bloodbath, predicts Legal Defense Fund Lawyer John Boger...
...half who survived, many found their way to Louisiana's "Acadian Coast," a new mecca on the Mississippi. From there, they filtered into the woods, turning into the dialectal "Cajuns" along the way. Those who went south into the swamps became the ancestors of today's fishermen and trappers. Those who retreated still farther, settling Louisiana's western prairies, rode into another part of American folklore: the West...
...Villanova 52; 2. Texas-El Paso 51; 3. Auburn 27; 4. (tie) Tennessee and Kansas 24; 6. Maryland 22; 7. Harvard 16; 8 (tie) Dartmouth, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana 14; 12. Texas A&M 12 3/5; 13. (tie) Houston, Southern lllinois, Nebraska 12; 16. Washington 11 3/5; 17 (tie) Florida, Mississippi College, Prairie View A&M 10; 20 (tie) Middle Tennessee, Eastern Michigan...