Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unchanging and familiar faces, a reminder that people still live out in the nameless suburbs west of the Hudson, where high school and football and the prom is still important. But when the Elks member explains his reasons for excluding blacks from his club, and the banker in Poplarville, Mississippi talks about "nigras," the reactionary trap of the Liberal as guilty populist gapes wide, trying to lull us into thinking that it is somehow "openminded" to tolerate these attitudes. Lest the good writing mislead us, it is helpful to remember that this is still journalism, and these are real people...
...strange domain. In a territory as large as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, huge patches still remain generally unreachable and desolate. Most of the population of 5.7 million is clustered in towns (the largest: Jeddah, pop. 400,000) or oases. The oil boom is Likely to alter the desert kingdom totally, as the Bedouins give up their no madic existence for a better life...
...July 1972, a camp sergeant in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman ordered Inmate William Hardin Bogard to take a sewing machine away from James B. ("Slick") Davis, a fellow inmate. Davis, who was allowed to work in the prison slaughterhouse even though he had been diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic, jammed a butcher knife into Bogard's spinal cord. The incident was Bogard's second bloody encounter with the malign brutality that has established Parchman as one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S. Less than a year before, he was shot in the foot by another...
Jean M. Guyton of Kirkland House and Jackson, Mississippi...
...city is slightly swollen with pride and somewhat torn between shouting to the world that it is not a hick cow town any more and keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each...