Word: keepin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 in odd isolation from the rest of the U.S., invoke the King James version of the Good Book in rough-hewn English, react to such intrusions as World War II by sending their young men off to fight, not knowingly but instinctively, like "the old mother hen flyin at the chicken hawk that comes swoopin...
...some orators in Tammany Hall," said Plunkitt, "but they're chiefly ornamental . . . The men who rule have practiced keepin' their tongues still, not exercisin' them...
...breakfast and lunch she has coffee and oatmeal, "with lots of sugar-that's for vitality." Her dinners are hearty. "Good eatin's and good keepin's" is Grandma's recipe for health. At 10 o'clock Grandma is ready for bed: "The minute my head hits the pillow I'm dead to the world." She sleeps on an old feather tick under an electric blanket...