Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moonshiner's community, coal smoke rises in thin gray wisps from stovepipes that jut through corrugated roofs. The houses are mostly unpainted clapboard decorated with weathered old Camel and Chesterfield signs; many are on stilts. The yards are strewn with empty cans, bottles, cartons, boxes. Chickens peck around them and in the meager patches of corn and tobacco plants. At the moonshiner's cabin, the approaching car sent two barefoot girls scurrying to their mother, who in turn summoned her husband. His face was a study in seams and his hands were encrusted with years of grit...
...most exciting part she has had in her four-year acting career: Adelaide, the nightclub entertainer and perennial fiancée of Gambler Nathan Detroit. In four pairs of eyelashes and a fluffy blonde wig, Maureen drew guffaws and catcalls in her bumping and grinding A Bushel and a Peck number, but the theater critic of the San Diego Union was more restrained. "Maureen Reagan," he wrote, "compensates for a small voice with large eyes and a dignified dedication...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck in an Oscar-winning drama about bigotry in the South. 11, March 5, Chan...
...Penn line-up includes many new faces because of the Quaker use of freshmen on the varsity squad. Joe Swain, who has been hampered by mononucleosis, is already playing number three on the ladder. Freshmen Howard Taxe and Tom Peck have rotated at eight and nine...
...told about a grownup visit to his tiny home town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...