Word: tellico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Jenkins, 57, the Mundt committee's chief counsel, is known around Knoxville as the "terror of Tellico." after his home town of Tellico Plains, Tenn. Last week, when Jenkins started questioning witnesses with a deep, roaring Tennessee drawl and fixing them with a tiger-like stare, they might have felt just a bit terrified. Jenkins has a simple definition of the problem he was hired to untangle: "Apparently everybody can't be telling the truth...
...four evenings a week, when the day's chores are done, they take off over the ridges to school. From Red Knob, five miles away, from Short Bark community, from Tellico Plains, where wild boar hunts are still held in the fall, they hike to the sloping green campus. In a classroom of the main college building, they sit in small groups, divided according to background and ability. Mrs. Frances Cope Murrell, the patient, even-tempered woman who does most of the teaching, moves from one group to another, coaching them through the rigors of long division, watching over...