Word: preachingest
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Andrew was tall, bony, large-faced, the son of a hot-tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the opposition of his father, his lack of resources nor the five years he had to spend on the farm before he could start college at the age of 21. Daughter Pearl Buck asked him how he had proposed to Carrie, when he was ready to take her along...
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