Word: possum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smoot "if we hurt his feelings," but the commentator was not moved. He slapped a $1,000,000 libel suit against Mrs. Power and three other league members, charging that he had suffered financial loss. He offered no specifics whatever, and he spent the next ten months playing possum with the court. Weary of endless pretrial conferences, Federal Judge Noel P. Fox in Grand Rapids finally ordered Smoot to post a $15,000 bond (he never has) to cover the league's legal fees if it could prove that Smoot's suit was merely for "vexatious purposes." With...
...product of St. Louis and Harvard, which are pretty American. A practical cat, and one who has to watch his health nowadays, Eliot elected to receive his honor in London. But as U.S. Ambassador David Bruce handed it over, the poet couldn't help grinning like Old Possum himself...
...youth, York was a Saturday night hell-raiser around Tennessee's tiny Cumberland Mountains towns-and a phenomenal shot with his long-barreled rifle. Yet at the mere sight of a church-going girl, Gracie Williams, whom he wanted to marry, he put away his jug, joined the Possum Trot Church choir, turned piously religious. Above all, he took to heart the Sixth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT KILL...
...caterpillar that grows into one of the flannel moths, Megalopyge opercularis. Country folk use so many other names that they have confused the issue. In North Carolina it is usually the "woolly slug," in Texas it is often "woolly worm," and in between it may be the puss caterpillar, possum bug, or Italian asp. In Mexico it becomes el perrito, or little dog. By any name, it stings...
...farm boy from Possum Hollow, near Granville, Tenn., Gore worked his way through a state teachers college at Murfreesboro by teaching country school. Later, after taking courses offered by the Y.M.C.A., he got a law degree, decided to enter politics, campaigned with a fiddle that scraped out lively hillbilly tunes, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1938, when he was 30. Gore earned a reputation among colleagues as a remarkably diligent worker-in his first year, during a House economy drive, he was the Democrat responsible for the defeat of a Roosevelt bill...