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Word: crawfishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Lubrication Expert | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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