Word: aunts
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...widower Rhodes married a 48-year-old, thickly mascaraed Texan with a record of multiple divorces. Aunt Anne, as she was called, had a talent for intimidation and exploitation. As her husband stood by ineffectually, she forced Richard and Stanley to do the heavy housework, forage for walnuts and , sell them door to door. Not allowed to use the toilet during the night, Richard surreptitiously relieved himself in jars. Beatings were common, and hunger constant. While Aunt Anne and her husband ate steak, the boys were fed rotting hard-boiled eggs...
...acres and through the barn out back, then lounged under an old hackberry tree. At noon dinner he loaded up his plate with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and took a seat with a cousin on the back porch. Wes cleaned his plate. His cousin did not. Aunt Ida came inspecting. She spied the wasted food, stopped and delivered a stern dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most...
...warm day in 1941 or 1942, and Wes Jackson, who was 5 or 6, climbed into the family's Lafayette sedan with assorted cousins. They drove from their farm near Topeka over to Abilene, Kans., for a family reunion at his great- aunt Ida Eisenhower's white frame house on Fourth Street, south of the tracks. Her son Dwight was either in Washington or Europe, even then on the edge of his great fame...
...does not mean it is a sleepy, podunk town. With a rejuvenated down-town, sprawling suburbs, rapid commercial growth and substantial improvements in infrastructure, Atlanta truly deserves its newfound spot on the Map of Important Places. Thanks in large part to Atlanta, the vocal twang once associated exclusively with Aunt Bea and Opie no longer automatically marks one as the product of a cultural backwater...
Souter's belief system mirrors that of an aunt, a Simmons College professor and Cambridge dowager who swam Lake Winnipesaukee in her 70s, was conservative socially and politically but liberal in her concern for other people. Although she was an heiress of the Boston & Maine Railroad who didn't need the money, she became a pioneering medical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital...