Word: yellin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corroborated by 11-year-old Sister Mary Catherine who, when twitted by the prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun him!" Edith, argued her lawyers, had exercised no more than her "God-given right of self-defense." But that did not impress the mountain jury, which, after less than an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict which...