Word: addictive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arguer. As a boy in California, Mo. (1950 pop. 3,500), Clarence Streit had no trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit...