Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good deal of time making quilts. They also keep the Methodist church as near as in the days when they had their own preacher. APCO is offering "a fair market value" for the land, which means up to $3,000 an acre for cleared fields, $500 for woodland. Townspeople know they cannot find the equivalent near by at that price, because the Gap lies on the edge of richer and more costly terrain. But more than that, they fear the loss of a way of life, of strong family ties, if they are forced to move...
...urbanized America, and at the same time an odd reliance on each other against the outside world may be the strongest bonds for the people of Brumley Gap. "You don't want to take welfare. That's a disgrace, forever," says McDaniel. "Everybody knows, though, that when the time comes and if someone needs help, you're going to know it and they sort of expect you to be there...
...next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake was not getting guns and running the APCO people out when they first appeared, gloomily confronts the future: "If that judge is against us I don't know what we'll do. Jail used to be a disgrace, but I don't reckon...
Paul Nitze may know more about the world's periodic outbursts of devastation than any other person. He was seven, and climbing in the Tyrol with his parents, when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering World War I. He was traveling in Germany in 1937 as Hitler was preparing for his conquests. As vice chairman of the World War II U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, he assessed the hellish aftermath of the raids on Dresden and Hamburg. He studied the fire bombing of Tokyo and was among the first Americans to stand in the scorched nuclear wasteland...
That might have restored Giuseppe's peace, but what he did not count on was Fortunata's anger upon learning that she had been traded for a secondhand truck. She blew the whistle, and soon the police were asking questions. They wanted to know if the women were being used as prostitutes; they denied it. The police asked just how Mariannina's husband's pension check was used. The answer was unclear. So now the authorities have charged Giuseppe with pandering and selling his harem's offspring, and they have taken him away. His wife...