Word: piney
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...rolling alpine meadows and the tundra beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces the 66° 30 min. latitude of the Arctic Circle. Then the road continues into the Northwest Territories, meets the Peel and Mackenzie rivers, and heads deep into the low, flat, piney Mackenzie Delta until at last it reaches Inuvik...
Whether they live in a city housing project, a tract development or deep in the piney woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane...
When embroidering such assumptions, Wolfe rarely sounds serious. Anyone who can describe Jimmy Carter's brand of religious faith as "Missionary lecternpounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly pineywoods Baptist" has not succumbed to ideological portentousness. Yet he clearly is serious−not because he is a closet conservative, but because he is an old-fashioned satirist...
...lands, often receiving a fraction of what they were worth. But the rest decided to fight. "This is my home," said Sidney Sturgill, 51, a muscular World War II veteran who is the seventh in his family line to farm the rolling acreage just outside the tiny community of Piney Creek, N.C. "My ancestors got title to this land for fighting in the Battle of Kings Mountain. My people have been in this valley for more than 200 years, and my go-back-four-times greatgrandfather's buried right here...
...Florida results are a severe blow to Wallace's hopes of going to the Democratic convention with the largest bloc of delegates. Wallace matched his 1972 margins only in the rural, sparsely populated Florida panhandle, close to the Alabama and Georgia piney woods. Carter won his largest margins, as did Ford on the Republican side, in the populous midsection of Florida, including St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Daytona Beach...