Word: forks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon everybody in the mountain miners' hamlet of Skin Fork, W.Va. - about 150 people - had heard the news that put their home town on the U.S. front pages: Private Kenneth Shadrick, 19, of Skin Fork, was the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the battle for Korea...
Half a World Away. Waiting for the telegram from the Government in Washington (which arrived two days later), the Shadricks assembled their recollections of Kenny. It was probably the football uniform, his father decided, that started Kenny on the way to his death, half a world from Skin Fork...
Until the family moved to Skin Fork four years ago and Kenny entered Pineville High School, seven miles away, Kenny's main interests were riding his bike, hunting a little now & then, and reading-mainly westerns and a magazine called Fantastic Novels. "All that boy liked was to sit hunched up there with a book and a piece of cold bread," said his father...
...favelas were combed by detectives disguised in patched rags and wooden clogs (the footgear of Rio's poor). Dried Meat's two henchmen, Smile and Fork, were caught after an exchange of gunfire in which a bystander was killed...
...biting cold of winter from their widely scattered huts and hogans on the reservation. They were of all ages and most of them were wide-eyed and scared. None had ever been to school before. Almost none had ever seen a bed or a shower, or eaten with knife & fork. Only half could speak any English...