Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sole check on whether the Nixon summary was complete and fair would be Nixon's personally selected auditor of the tapes: Mississippi Senator John Stennis, 72, a conservative Democrat who only recently recovered from critical bullet wounds sustained in a street robbery. Stennis would be given "unlimited access" to the tapes to verify Nixon's account of them, according to this plan. The selection of Stennis was perhaps the only unflawed element in Nixon's design. To his colleagues, it was inconceivable that he would have anything to do with a scheme to mislead the Senate...
Several other colleges have tried to turn on teen-agers with music. The University of Akron has a radio commercial backed by folk music; Franconia College has one supported by Mendelssohn. Mississippi State hands out records that proclaim, to a driving rock beat, that M.S. is "the groovy place to get it all together." But Chicago's Loyola University has now outhuckstered them all by saturating the local airwaves for a week with its very own soft rock song...
...years I lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and had a Southern accent. Mine wasn't Applachian hillbilly-country music Southern, nor was it the soft-petalled Junior League variety. It was just a home-grown Mississippi River vintage '53 drawl. I liked it. Felt comfortable with it. Then I came to Harvard, and grudgingly, but inevitably, surrendered my natural speech...
Willie Morris, in his autobiography North Toward Home, tells of a sportscaster called the Dutchman who was Yazoo City, Mississippi's only link with professional sports. The Dutchman verbally embellished his radio accounts of baseball games and was immensely popular...
Cohen is a 33-year-old liberal Republican, elected to his first term in Congress last year by the voters of northern Maine. During his 1972 campaign, Cohen walked 600 miles through the second district--the largest Congressional district east of the Mississippi--and built up enough popular support to win an upset victory over his opponent, Elmer Violette...