Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union prison camp, and Union troops devastated the family plantation in Lafayette County, Miss. Quarles's father, a dentist, moved to Van Buren, Ark. As a boy, Quarles roamed the Ozarks, fished in mountain streams, applied an old country remedy when a playmate was bitten by a snake (the remedy: a raw-chicken poultice). He sang in his high-school glee club with bazooka-playing Arkansas Traveler Bob Burns, graduated at 15, then taught school for $50 a month. In 1912-16 he worked his way through Yale, averaging 90-95. He enlisted, fought in France with the Rainbow...
Decision on the Snake For seven years, private-and public-power advocates have been battling over rival plans to tame the Northwest's tortuous, turbulent Snake River, one of the last great U.S. valleys still unharnessed...
Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...protesting shocker about an intelligent but morally weak man, who summons enough resolution to try suicide, only to revive in the white hell of a big-city hospital's psychiatric ward. Ably directed by Co-Star José Ferrer, the film protests not only against municipal snake pits but also against another unattractive institution-marriage between crutchlike women and emotionally crippled...
Dressed in a dark-blue double-breasted suit, a dark-blue tie, and a shirt with a blue pinstripe, Krishna Menon looked more than ever like a snake charmer, but he denied that he had developed a personal aura of mystery: "The only mystery I know of about myself is that I have nothing to be mysterious about. It is so simple that it appears complex. And this world loves complexity because it flatters itself - how complex we have made things - and it is complexity that baffles us. That...