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Word: killin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed and pleaded with him for two hours: "Here take this gun lest I change my mind-killin's too good for them Saxons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Walkin Preacher | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Mumford Jones | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

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