Word: cornbread
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...Birmingham the rule is: Be friendly, warm and helpful. When a Yankee visitor wonders what the local cornbread tastes like, several regulars offer to go home right that very minute and start baking some up for an early-morning delivery. The crowd has reached full pitch, chorusing stanzas celebrating happy American vistas-I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover-and heartbreak-The Way We Were-and bittersweet hope. After all these years, I Could Have Danced All Night still prompts the certainty that Someday My Prince Will Come, perhaps no later than Tomorrow, and from then...
Behind the cornbread and strawberry-jam façade, however, is a cancer: the founder of the fortune, who cannot even control his own bodily functions, has wrapped his legacy in black shrouds of suspicion and hostility, with vicious attacks on his daughter Charlotte and her brother. Soon it becomes clear that the old man is neither dying nor senile-just mean...
...break. In the final game, played before 16,121 screaming Houston fans, Boston withstood a dazzling fourth-quarter resurgence by the Rockets. Over a five-minute stretch, Houston scored 16 points to a mere two for Boston, whittling the Celtic lead from 15 points to three. But Forward Cedric ("Cornbread") Maxwell, the series' Most Valuable Player, and Running Mate Larry Bird pumped in 14 points between them in the remaining four minutes. Maxwell was the only one of the Celtics' big guns whom the Rockets never managed to quell. He averaged 17.7 points and 9.5 rebounds...
Parish will be joined up front by Kevin McHale, a towering rookie and Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, the wispy veteran who led the league in both field goal percentage and annoying ability to wrest rebounds from much heavier...
...Cornbread Maxwell leads some place called the University of North Carolina-Charlotte to the NCAA final four and seems to have fun doing...