Word: snopesian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breathing. Ervine Turner, who died last year after a 40-year career as state senator, school superintendent and circuit judge, first became a power in the mountainous area when he brought Breathitt the benefits of the New Deal. His death did nothing to weaken his family's Snopesian hold on the county. His wife Marie served as county school superintendent for 38 years until her retirement last June, and still remains president of the Citizens Bank of Jackson, the county seat. Their son John is a state senator. Their daughter, Mrs. Treva Turner Howell, continues the old family tradition...
...Snopesian Boor During the height of his battle with the Kennedys, it was said that Manchester had depicted Lyndon Johnson as a kind of Snopesian boor in the hours immediately after the assassination. L.B.J.'s portrait as it now appears in the book is not all that uncomplimentary. Fewer than 4,000 words were deleted from the book's 360,000 as a result of the Kennedy intervention-but some could have made quite a difference. Besides, it is impossible to say just how much Manchester's first-draft characterization may have been softened by Harper...