Jones, nicknamed "The Possum" for his resemblance to the animal, was born in 1931 in east Texas.
Having no movement whatsoever I control an environmental system (called "Possum") solely by whistling into a microphone.
Crandall and Burr are calling their air taxi service Pogo--after the stick that bounces, not Walt Kelly's cartoon possum.
"There was but one way to go from Possum Hollow -- that was up and out, " he once said.
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Fire officials at a command center in Strawn, Texas, said 30% of this Possum Kingdom fire has been contained.
From Native American languages came words like raccoon, possum, caribou, moose, skunk, squash, hickory, pecan, persimmon, moccasin and caucus.
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In New Zealand the brush tail possum is thought to harbour bovine TB, and is killed using poison and traps.
These distant cousins of the American possum, imported last century for their fur, took an instant liking to kiwi eggs, and N.
Valerie Eliot also allowed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats to be based on TS Eliot's whimsical verses, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
He did not take the loss like a man but went back to the room at the boardinghouse and sulled up like a possum.
The stage show became a global hit that brought in huge sums for the Eliot estate, and enabled her to create Old Possum's Practical Trust.
That's a bit more myth of course, because the Possum was just as capable of recording a daft novelty song or a foot-stomping slab of honky-tonk.
He hungered for that sensation again and again, and that is what led him toward education and law and politics -- and out of Possum Hollow.
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The works of other artists, Clifford Possum Japaltjarri and Pansy Napangardi among them, have graduated from the obscurity of local galleries to the private collections of the rich.
Albert loved the sound of his own mellifluous Tennessee mountain voice and seemed enthralled by the art of speechmaking, which he had been practicing since his Possum Hollow childhood.
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Talents as distinctive as Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones paid tribute to the singer whom many in Nashville called "Possum" for his distinctive nose.
The wildfire that destroyed the Creswells' home is one of a series of blazes that are ravaging the area around Possum Kingdom Lake, about 100 miles west of Dallas-Fort Worth.
He lives with his parents, Allen and Margie, along with his siblings and an orphaned cousin on a farm in Possum Hollow about fifteen miles from Carthage at the edge of Smith County.
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To eradicate the thriving possum population (70 million at last count), authorities airdrop carrots laced with sodium monofluoroacetate, a rodenticide banned in the U.S. The poisoned veggies snuff not only possums but also bunnies, deer and household pets.
He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948, and is probably best known for The Waste Land, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats - which was later became Lloyd Webber's musical, Cats.
The bones of the story remain: Sergeant Possum (Lee Marvin) and four of his infantry men (Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward) fight together, and stay alive, all the way from North Africa to the concentration camps.
During his late teens he was the only member of his generation from Possum Hollow to go to college, attending the state teachers school in Murfreesboro, while also hauling livestock to market, raising a tobacco crop, and selling radios door-to-door for the furniture man in Carthage.
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Gore's father could find poetry in the hardship stories of his early days in Possum Hollow, recalling droughts so bad that they had to cut down trees to let cattle suck moisture from the leaves, but most of the romance was in the telling, not the living.
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The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.
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