Word: maw
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There are twelve Taylors. Paw is "a stoop-shouldered man in faded and patched overalls and jumper," whose "whole attitude [was] one of vague indecision and innate bewilderment." Maw "was heavy and cumbersome with un attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack...
...Well, Maw, how do you like this?" said Paw. "Hit's right crowded," said Maw, "but . . . hit's right narce having neighbors so handy...
...They were pretty nice about it," said Hub to Maw. "First place I went to fixed us up a credit. . . . They knowed we was on the WP & A. . . . Right nice folks...
...Well," said Maw, "it makes a body feel right good for folks to be friendly...
...offensive was aimed at Minsk, where the Russians had concentrated 24 of their best divisions. Steel columns shot out in the familiar pincers operation, only this time they moved far deeper and far wider than usual. Early this week the steel jaws bit together behind Minsk, and within the maw the Germans claimed to have two great armies; not only the Minsk divisions, but frontier divisions as well...