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Word: transgressionâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1978-1978
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...adopted, Byrd met his real father for the first ?and last?time when he was 15. His adoptive mother, wife of a coal miner, was a strict disciplinarian. "I never remember her kissing me," Byrd recalls, "except once." Young Byrd had misbehaved?he no longer recalls the transgression???but resourcefully came up with a ploy. Says he: "I asked her to kiss me. She did, and didn't whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Byrd of West Virginia: Fiddler in the Senate | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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