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Word: acomin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed up the sleeves of his shirt and looked out over the crowd in the brush arbor. "I feel the power acomin' on. Thank you, Jesus, I feel the 'nointing!" He plunged his hands into the box and brought out two giant rattlers. A woman near him screamed, "Thank you, Jesus," and became rigid. A young girl cried out, "Hit's the power," and began shouting unintelligibly. Women moaned and reeled. In the hot night, the guitars thrummed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Any Deadly Thing | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...civilized" that seemed strange and irksome to a six-year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey got Ad Poak, the hired man, to take the horse clippers to his shoulder-length hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oklahoma Boyhood | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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