Word: forkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...
Round Peg. In Memphis, Dill Pickle quit his job in a grocery store and went back home to Rolling Fork, Miss...
West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...
...proposed issue of 1.5 million more shares of stock (TIME, Jan. 19). K-F was scared off by the poor market for new issues. Two days later, Henry & Joe were honored by initiation into Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners Club. Sinner Joe chased Saint Henry around with a fork until he agreed to buy a Frazer...
...even his Model-T stuck, then walked ten miles to a rancher dying of pneumonia. On the way he lost his fountain pen. The next spring a road crew brought him the pen and explained: "This must be yours, Doc. Nobody else would have been up in that Williams Fork country in the winter...