Word: hiawatha
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...poem was called "Ode to Grapefruit." It no longer exists, even in my memory. But I do remember that the last line was written in the cadence of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "and-my-bel-ly-full-of-grape-fruit." I don't know whether Professor Crouch did it as a trick, but he got me to talk. He had a conviction that if you like words, you should be able to say them out loud. Reading my poems out loud helped me to speak and to deal with my stutter...
...region to prove, and the people defend themselves by going overboard in most anything they do. In Michigan, especially in the Upper Peninsula and western parts of the state, the hunting and gun culture is celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture is at its strongest in this part...
Pestery winds made for a tougher second day of competition at Hiawatha Landing in Apalachin, N.Y., as Harvard fell 25 shots off its opening-round pace to finish seventh overall...
Unlike some, I prefer my Bill of Rights intact. I don't own a gun; I don't want a gun. But the day the government tries to ban guns is the day I buy 10. HIAWATHA BRAY Quincy, Mass...
Although Jennings' life story has been likened to that of Hiawatha and Homer, Sandy Seddacca, dean of external relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, introduced him as one survivor among tens of thousands of inner city kids...