Word: runnin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during t' war. Naow, Ah'm a dalesman (living in England's northern valleys) masen. Ah believe that Ah've got a whole lot o' your bluid in ma own veins, and think there's a whole lot of it too runnin' in t' veins of a lot o' little kiddies o' the Yorkshire coon-tryside...
...Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...
After reading a speech by socialist CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell, she said: "The way I figger it, come the day when Coldwell is runnin' the country, there'll be ... freedom for everybody. . . . Everybody starves to death, of course, after a week or two, but it don't matter. We're all free...
...Started Runnin'." "It started breakin' in one place, then another," said leathery, 60-year-old Fisherman John Quails, a flood veteran. "Then I heard a boy hollerin' up the way a piece, and I seen it was all over. We started runnin' and the water was right at our heels...
That kept the cost of living from runnin' clear away...