Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After chronicling a year in the life of the Shackelfords and the Mosebys, Howell's book moves to a quicker discussion of people he knew less well, and finally to a general description of the style of life he calls hard living. Even in the conclusion, however, Howell respects the individuality of each of the people he knew. He uses a novelist's style to describe the people he knew on Clay Street, and he draws few conclusions, because he wants to broaden the reader's thinking, not to fit it to a set of his ideas...
...Being a little quicker than the snail," replies Father Grass, tucking everybody snugly in, "... and never getting there, children." Holy Spaceship Earth! Leaping Electronic Village! Could this agitator for 19th century liberalism be right...
...days there. He was, said Tkach, "moderately sick." Nixon was given an antibiotic and an analgesic, and cut down his work load to one-quarter of its normal amount. With his pneumonia, he was running a temperature (between 101° and 102°), and his breathing was slightly quicker than usual...
...selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow-witted Daddy than he'd be willing to admit was possible in real life. Cinema 57. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. every two hours...
...selling just-widowed, bereaved old ladies Bibles that he has personalized in gold on the covers after gleaning the victims' names out of the local want ads. His real-life daughter (Tatum O'Neal) is an 11-year-old tomboy, and a leech so tough that she pulls a quicker con over her big-mouthed but slow-witted Daddy than he'd be willing to admit was possible in real life. Cinema 57. 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. every two hours...