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The young people depicted in this documentary were basically my age cohort -- the one's who wore 'coon-skin hats out of enthusiasm for Disney's David Crockett, who were taught how to "duck and cover" in case of a nuclear attack, and of whom a large proportion found inspiration in JFK's portrayal of the ruler of Camelot and sat around campfires singing gentle songs of protest that we'd learned from Peter, Paul and Mary albums.
From Idealism to This! A Baby-Boomer Laments How the Future Ain't What it Used to Be 2006
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Then they continued down I-81 to I-4O, past fireworks stands, stores selling coon-skin caps, and mountains blanketed with kudzu.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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Then they continued down I-81 to I-4O, past fireworks stands, stores selling coon-skin caps, and mountains blanketed with kudzu.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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Then they continued down I-81 to I-4O, past fireworks stands, stores selling coon-skin caps, and mountains blanketed with kudzu.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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Then they continued down I-81 to I-4O, past fireworks stands, stores selling coon-skin caps, and mountains blanketed with kudzu.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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The swamp men were lean bearded giants in homespun, coon-skin caps on their heads, their rifles easy in the crooks of their arms, their wads of tobacco stilled in their cheeks.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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