Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notification chore was undertaken by Lawyer St. Clair. He headed for the Capitol in a black limousine to brief the men who had stuck their political necks out for the President in the House Judiciary Committee meetings: the ten Republicans who had opposed every article of impeachment. All but Mississippi's Trent Lott and Iowa's Wiley Mayne were able to attend the meeting in the office of Republican House Whip Leslie Arends...
...history of tyranny is very long, and the principal source of oppression has always been the unrestrained power of the state." When South Carolina's Mann observed that the U.S. political system looks out for "the underdog" and protects the "individual from the power of his government," Mississippi Republican Trent Lott had a question...
...follow an evidentiary trail from the improper activities of Nixon's aides to the President, argued California Republican Carlos Moorhead, "there is a big moat that you have to jump across to get the President involved ? and I cannot jump over that moat." Mississippi Republican Trent Lott argued with < vigor that "for every bit of evidence implicating the President, there is evidence to the contrary." The case against Nixon, contended Iowa 3 Republican Wiley Mayne, consists of "a series of inferences piled upon
...Like the Mississippi, the swindle theme runs deep, wide and muddy through the heart of American literature. Melville navigated the subject on the river boat Fidele, which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...
...least ten states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia have death as the maximum rape penalty...