Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long way from the family funeral-home business in Yazoo City, Miss., to a seat in the President's Cabinet in Washington. It has been an even longer trip back. Since he became one of the President's discredited men and resigned in 1994, former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has been practicing law in his home state--and waiting for what finally came last week...
...front in the arena and a 7 a.m. breakfast with Zig Ziglar, a former pots- and-pans salesman billed as "America's No. 1 Motivational Speaker." Over doughnuts and coffee with 300 other "VIPs," I nodded and laughed along with everyone else at stories of his hardscrabble boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his mother said motivational things like this: "You're going to have to lick that calf over again. That job might be all right for some boys. But you're not most boys. You can do better...
...victim of this affliction is Willie Morris of Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1967, a mere 32, he became the youngest editor in chief ever of Harper's magazine. Full of himself and brimming with pep, Morris tried to aerate the old monthly, which was losing about $150,000 a year, by hiring a cadre of hard-drinking cronies that included John Corry, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King. When Morris wasn't schmoozing with the likes of John J. McCloy and Walter Lippmann at the veddy veddy Century Club, you might have found him boozing with other celebs...
...committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...
...been head of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg, hemmed by the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, the poorest and blackest part of this country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst to stop them. Television beamed the story...