Word: crookedness
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A smudged and crooked line,
Down in the harsh bottom land of Crooked Creek, N.C., the sharecropping Negroes grub and grovel in feudal hardship, sustained only by a Bible-quoting parson and their own passive resistance to death, famine and flood - the blind resilience peculiar to those with no hope to abandon except that of...
Old Hen. Of All the Kingdom's twelve chapter-size tales, the best demonstrate how resolutely the Crooked Creekers man age "just keepin on keepin on" until the Lord God calls them home. Depicted in the 30-odd years between World War I and Korea, the Crooked Creekers live...
If there is a character who can be called central, he is Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church...
The film suggests that the headlines were enough to make Rocky think seriously of making a deal with the crooked gamblers, only to be dissuaded by a pep talk from his neighborhood candy-store proprietor and by a fortuitous reconciliation with his father. Somebody ends with Rocky knocking out Zale...