Word: kentuckian
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MONSANTO CHEMICAL: Charles Allen Thomas, 51, is a chemist turned manager. A Kentuckian, he went from M.I.T...
...home-grown brand of Kentuckian is not necessarily as lean, long and hard-driving as the University of Kentucky's Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year...
...love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered. "You can't vote this year," he would say, "but you will be voting before I quit running for office...
...patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill Henderson was shot to death in a feud...
...much the same story next day. The Federals, who had fallen back and dug in near Gaines's Mill, cut down every Confederate attack. Lee pondered the situation, finally went in search of a tall, rawboned, 31-year-old Kentuckian named John Bell Hood. Demanded Lee: Could General Hood and his Texas brigade do the job of breaking the Federal lines? Said Hood: "I will...