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Word: coalbin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flip's mother abandoned the family when Flip was still a youngster, and his father floated from place to place in search of low rents. At one point he moved his brood into a coalbin cellar. "We'd steal buns from the A & P, milk, anything to keep alive," recalls Flip's brother Lemuel, a carpenter in Jersey City. "I used to steal Christmas trees so we'd have one on Christmas." In those days Flip was a quick, thin child with a runny nose and a big appetite; his brothers and sisters called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're Hot, You're Hot | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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