Word: tupelo
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...product of a more complex chemical reaction. Bright days and cool evening create the perfect environemnt for the production of anthocyanin, a chemical relative of benzene and phenol. The bleached chlorophyll clears the way for the purple, red, pink and bluish variations of anthocyanin. For example, the Tupelo tree, found all over Martha's Vinyard, turns fire engine red according to Einset...
...most active groups of antipornography crusaders is Wildmon's National Federation for Decency, which grew from its Tupelo headquarters to encompass 350 chapters nationwide. Leslie and Ronald Pasquini run the chapter in Springfield, Mass., which coordinates efforts in New England. It claims 1,000 members and has staged pickets at 30 adult-magazine outlets in the region. The group's relentless pressure on the Rhode Island-based CVS drugstore chain, along with the commission letter, apparently bore fruit last month: the company announced it was removing Playboy and Penthouse from its 600 shops...
PORNOGRAPHY. In Fundamentalist eyes, the press, the movies, and especially TV shows that feature sex and violence are waging a war against religion and traditional family values. The initiator of many of these complaints is Donald Wildmon, 47, of Tupelo, Miss., a clergyman in the liberal United Methodist Church who nonetheless exudes a Fundamentalist spirit in running the National Federation for Decency. In 1982, the group boycotted, with mixed success, television advertisers who sponsored offensive shows. Wildmon also organizes believers in many cities to get the Playboy channel off local cable. Sex on television, says Wildmon, "threatens the very continued...
...finest decoy makers were explaining their techniques to a rapt audience. "Think egg, think oval, think round, think pleasant," said Tan Brunet, a championship carver from Galliano, La. "A bird has no corners." As he talked, a neighbor, Jimmie Vizier, another prizewinning carver, addressed a block of tupelo. Shavings flew. Brunet chalked a map of the United States on a blackboard, understandably skewing the southern dip of Louisiana so that it was more prominent than that of Texas, than that of Florida. He explained migratory patterns, different woods, paints, patterns of feathers, and as his listeners took notes, he threw...
...advance work have improved after a disastrous start that was symbolized by a Mondale visit to a factory in Green Bay, Wis., two weeks ago: he had to wait for what seemed an eternity before any workers showed up to shake hands. At a meeting with top aides in Tupelo, Miss., following the fiasco, Mondale demanded that they stop arranging "cutesie" photo opportunities and schedule only "substantive forums" at which he could talk issues to live audiences. He also ordered longtime Aide Mike Berman to take tighter control of advance work. The result: crowds turned out last week and microphones...