Word: watermelon
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...refer to Camilla as the county seat of "the bottom of Georgia's backwoods." May I also point out that it is the peanut capital of the world, only 24 miles from Moultrie, the watermelon capital of the world, and only 28 miles from Thomasville, where President Eisenhower goes to shoot backwoods birds, who doubtless appreciate the honor bestowed on them...
...bells driving someone mad, the witches in Macbeth, the feel of going under ether. A sound made listeners see doors open and close. When someone in the play was stabbed, listeners were made to feel it as a sound-effects man hovered over a mike and knifed a watermelon...
...beaming fellow, turned up in unexotic loafers, levis and leather chaps, managed to score one goal (he has a seven-goal rating) before the weather fagged him and his overburdened pony. The maharani, his darkly glamorous wife, looked cool and composed in a diaphanous sari of watermelon pink, but she didn't feel that way. "Saris look cool," she explained, "but they hug the ankles, and are really too hot on a day like this...
...Crudeness. Participants in a few programs are encouraged to do things which we hope would never happen in normal society. Playing a trombone with a mouthful of watermelon is a sample of so-called humor that is more messy than funny...
...secret service men, Nixon drove to 125th Street and set out on foot, stopping to ask several children about the Dodgers' winning streak, whirled in and out of the offices of the weekly New York Age Defender, paused in the next block to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor and assure him that he loved watermelons but did not have time to eat a slice just then. At the Carver Federal Savings and Loan Association, he accepted a new half dollar with the likeness of George Washington Carver on it, then whipped-around to the United Mutual Life Insurance...