Word: womenfolks
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...take their lumps on the ice, then pass them along to the womenfolk in the bedroom. Loretta's steadfast affection for Dillon is meant to be win some, cockeyed and noble all at once. But in this benighted melodrama, com passion and indulgence are the same, and women are the stronger vessel be cause they take their punishment with a tear and a smile...
...Duke dashes around the world blasting out spectacular blazes in other people's wells. When he isn't hellfighting, he puzzles out all sorts of complicated personal relationships: Will he get back together with his wife? Will daughter find true happiness with Her Man? Will the womenfolk ever resign themselves to their menfolk's dangerous pursuits...
Argot Born. One day in '92, sitting around the Anytime Saloon, Reg and Tom Burger and the Duff brothers started putting some of their old Scotch-Irish dialect words together with some on-the-spot code words into a language that the enemies-be they womenfolk, their rivals, their elders, their children-could not possibly understand. It caught on, rapidly losing its value as a code; soon "Boontlingers" and their friends were eagerly trying to shark (con) each other with new inventions...
...Appalachians are the most hopeless: they arrive in ancient automobiles, hoping for nothing more than a quick profit on a job that will permit them to return to their holler. They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country...
...Their womenfolk walk the cove trails without fear of rape, though perhaps not immune to seduction at early ages, and they don't depend on LSD or pot to send them. You hardly ever hear of an ulcer or a nervous breakdown in the hills. The only air pollution problem is the smell of wood smoke on a frosty day. I don't believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves...