Word: palmettos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yawns & Galluses. Through the fast-moving telecamera, the balloting, the demonstrations, the tub-thumping speeches and sweating caucuses looked bigger and more exciting than they actually were. It was the delegates who gave the convention most of its strawberry festival flavor -a homy mixture of galluses, shirtsleeves, palmetto fans, odd hats and lax faces. Most televiewers lost the thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto...
...afternoon last week, the prison trucks pulled up at State Highway Camp 18, a dreary collection of wooden buildings in the piney woods and palmetto lowlands of Georgia's coastal plain. They were bringing back the road gang from its grass-cutting job along Jesup Highway. The Negro convicts were hustled out and herded in front of one of the barracks. There was a confusion of orders and shouting. Then, as quick as a shimmer of summer lightning, something happened...
...after the Kingfish was killed, the Carters sold out their Louisiana paper, moved to Greenville. As a kind of personal protest against Munich, Editor Carter enlisted in the National Guard. He lost the sight of his right eye in a training-camp exercise in Florida (he walked into a palmetto...