Word: tupelo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
Random Harvest. In Tupelo, Miss., when shiny new garbage containers were installed in the downtown business district, garbage collectors had a hard day sorting the rubbish from the outgoing mail...
...news photographer's life is not always a happy one - as A. P. Photographer Allen Snipes can testify. On election day in Tupelo, Miss, last July, he asked Representative John Rankin to let him take a candidate-voting-for-himself picture. Rankin said no. Snipes snapped a picture anyway. As he walked away, the Congressman jumped him from behind, ripped off his shirt, scratched him, snatched his camera, tore out the film. Result: no picture...
...spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit. He was the best war-bond salesman that ever hit the state...
...Tupelo is an ultra-romantic spot on the shores of Lake Waban, otherwise known as Wellesley pond. There the wily Wellesley lassies will in traditional manner seek to entrap the Class of '45 on balmy spring nights...