Word: possum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last swing or kick. Finally the cops quieted the crowd, which must have thought the old man was dead or dying. The curtains were drawn, and I waited for the wail of an ambulance, for surely Pop was in need of medical aid. But the sly possum suddenly jumped to his feet, not a mark on him, and strode into the dressing room with a sinister grin on his face, basking in the hatred of the fans and confident that next week would be a packed house. -"My Father the Thing," by Joe Jares Sports Illustrated (March...
...cookbooks, one is the work of Ruth Gaskins, a Negro from Alexandria, Va., who works as a federal clerk in Washington. Her A Good Heart and a Light Hand (Turnpike Press, $3) contains recipes for everything from possum casserole to potato wine, and is selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a month. The other, Soul Food Cookery, by a black public relations woman in Kansas City named Inez Kaiser (Pitman, $3.95), has 266 carefully indexed recipes that include "soul" sandwiches and "soul" TV snacks...
Down to the Sea. Oklahoma's Will Rogers once cracked: "When the Arkansas, Red River, Salt Fork, Verdigris, Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated...
...brama bull's balls and a possum's preoccupations...
...took off with Grimes at the controls, the general as his copilot, and Harold Possum, 43, of Montclair, Calif., as navigator. Because Grimes added extra fuel tanks enabling it to carry 2,000 gallons of gasoline, the Coast Guard figured that the plane could stay aloft no more than an hour after losing power in one engine. Even so, DC-3s are renowned for their ditching capabilities, and searchers were at first instructed to look for a floating plane...