Word: palmettos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This book should be read by every South Carolinian regardless of race. It should be required reading in schools. It should be publicized from one end of the State to the other.... The facts which McMillan describes should be a source of deep shame to every resident of the Palmetto State, not so much because the conditions as he describes them exist, but because we are, for the most part, totally ignorant of them...
Over the years, the general boosted enrollments from 600 to more than 1,250, supervised every one of his cadets down to the last palmetto button. Each morning, dressed in his great blue cloak ("The Shadow," cadets secretly called him), he would tour his campus and deliver a blistering sermon to any delinquent he spotted. But in spite of his strictness, his cadets learned to love him. Once, when he bluntly announced his resignation because a state senator dared to question his budget, the entire corps signed a petition begging him to stay...
...Palmetto, Fla. last week, seven members of one family-Wilbur C. Bearden and his wife, three children, mother and brother-in-law-were killed when their automobile rammed into a locomotive at a crossing...
...England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start with Tobacco Road. But the halt was only temporary...
...some more done, Jack dropped in last week at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Open and led off in a drizzling rain by firing a scorching 66. But his rivals at the palmetto-fringed Lakewood Country Club course (par: 72) were determined not to let Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four-way tie for low first-round honors. Then, while the others slipped up toward par, Jack stayed down in birdie country. By the last day, though firemen had to put out a small brush fire on the course, Jack was white...