Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 52 humble beginnings 52 hardscrabble 51 humble origins 47 hard scrabble 43 sharecropper 43 boyhood 42 Horatio Alger 42 modest beginnings 42 humble 41 upbringing 41 privileged upbringing 40 millworker 39 smalltown 39 Charles Kuralt 38 paints portrait 38 Fond memories 38 renown 37 work ethic 37 blue collar roots 37 prominence 37 selfless devotion 37 meteoric rise 37 Midwesterner 37 frontiersman 37 Depression Era 37 Depression era 37 striver 36 Huey Long 36 Southerner 36 southern belle 36 iron willed 36 Louisianan 36 blue collar 36 piney woods 36 uncelebrated 36 legacies 36 prospered 36 homespun 36 onetime 36 indomitable 36 childhood 35 admired 35 perseverance 35 affluence 35 accomplishments 35 workingman 35 backwoods 35 relative obscurity 35 cherishes 35 hardworking 35 rock ribbed 35 devotion 35 antebellum 35 beginnings 35 newspaperman 35 triumphs 35 upward mobility 35 storied 35 stardom 35 plainspoken 34 nurtured 34 greatness 34 rough hewn 34 universally admired 34 meteoric 34 reveres 34 speaks eloquently 34 overcoming adversity 34 tribulations 34 hometown 34 obscurity 34 folksy charm 34 admiration 34 tireless 34 frontiersmen 34 steelworker 34 legacy 34 tireless advocate 33 chronicle 33 sharecroppers 33 tenacity 33 rugged individualism 33 formative 33 pinnacles 33 travails 33 paean 33 shoeshine boy 33 boomtowns 33 Civil War buff 33 cub reporter 33 stature 33 orator 33 relentless pursuit 33 Lyndon Johnson 33 bumpkin 33 unwavering dedication 33 legendary 33 mythic 33 Great Emancipator 33 eloquence 33 sharecropping