Word: settledness
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To understand that, it helps to look at the rock bottom he came from. Chester Trent Lott was born in October 1941 in the north-central Mississippi hill town of Grenada, 246 miles from Pascagoula--and a world away, economically and socially. He was, from the start, considered a "miracle...
The Pascagoula in which Trent Lott grew up was settled by immigrants from France, Spain, Italy, Lebanon and Yugoslavia. But in Lott's youth, as now, blacks numbered only about 18% of the area's population, and whites didn't feel as threatened as they did in the black-majority...
And unless you happen to be a windmill repairman, she also knows a whole lot more than you do about old water-pumping windmills. When she started work on her sly new novel, That Old Ace in the Hole (Scribner; 384 pages), she thought it would center on windmills and...
This was a fake year, a retro year, a year when new ideas were kicked to the curb like some dorky futuristic scooter. If someone came to you 10 years ago and told you that one of the biggest U.S. news stories in 2002 would be a big-time politician...
“The matter is settled, it has come to an end. The case is over and there are no more allegations of wrongdoing,” Peres said. He would not disclose the details of the settlement.