Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today Smalls' Harvesting is run by Jessie (who oversees three combines), his son Joe, 34 (who manages two more), and Jessie's cousin Gayle. Jessie's other son, Byron, 17, and daughter, Susie. 14, both drive combines, though Susie, much to her annoyance, is still considered something of an apprentice. "When I'm 18," she declares, "I'm going to have my own combine and all-woman crew." When Susie says things like that, Byron makes a face as if he's just finished sucking on a lemon. Jessie, proud of his daughter...
...Tison's family rallied round. On July 30, he was visited by his son Ricky, 18, and the two chatted in a fenced picnic area at the prison. At the same time, two of Tison's other sons, Raymond, 19, and Donald, 20, decided to visit their father. They carried a box of food into the prison. Checking in at the lobby, one of them pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of the box and aimed it at a guard. Soon the three sons were escorting their father out of prison. With them went Convicted Murderer Randy Greenawalt...
...Harry Elkins Widener'07 was a young Harvard graduate when he sailed innocently enough on the Titanic. In the subsequent disaster, he died when he was unable to swim 100 yards to a lifeboat. When Mrs. Widener, his mother, gave Harvard the library as a memorial to her bibliophile son (all that money came from owning the Philadelphia trolleys) she stipulated that every Harvard graduate must be able to swim. This is why you have to swim 100 yards before you can graduate. Believe us, through, this is the least of your worries...
...Anne Montgomery. These were saved. Some were graded by Prudence Steiner, and these were cast by the wayside. And there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. And the people murmured against Morton, and stayed away from lectures to tend their other crops. But unlike the Prodigal Son they found no improvement upon their return. And the people took the final exam, not caring for salvation. For all they knew was that Morton would be gone and happiness could return to the land. And some people went out from that place and wrote these things in the book...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., explaining why, in his book about Alabama Judge Frank Johnson Jr., he did not mention the suicide of Johnson's son: "I'd seen what the press made of things that had happened to my family. I don't think I can express how deep a hurt that...