Word: anesthetist
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...have to walk away from the example set by his mother Virginia Kelley, and not just in the way she battled to raise him after the death of his father and her remarriage to an alcoholic who made life difficult for them. Twice during her career as a nurse-anesthetist, Kelley was involved in struggles to save her job over episodes in which she felt unjustly accused. Both involved the death of patients under her care...
...strong family in the kind of small town that Bill Clinton pretends to come from. The Man from Hope actually grew up in Hot Springs, a resort town of healing waters and racetracks and churches built on gambling money. Both had powerhouse working mothers--Virginia Kelley was a nurse anesthetist; Bina Dole sold sewing machines door to door--though Virginia had far less luck or judgment than Bina in choosing men. Mrs. Dole would not have married a man without knowing that he'd been married three times before. Once widowed, Clinton's mother married again, to a philandering, cologne...
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...town itself was and is small and slow. Because Clinton's father drowned in a freak accident before his birth, Bill's mother left him with her parents while she went off to New Orleans to become certified as a nurse anesthetist. Clinton's grandparents, Hardey and Mattie Hawkins, ran a grocery store outside town near the Rose Hill Cemetery. Clinton, who was often in the store as a child, remembers its clientele as half black, but his cousin Falva Lively says, "Oh, it was more than that. It was in what used to be called Niggertown." Clinton praises...
...start in Hot Springs. Roger Clinton, who had been selling Buicks in a town with little demand for new or expensive cars, joined his brother in a more prosperous dealership in the state's most affluent resort town. Virginia, meanwhile, got steadier work, better remunerated, as a nurse anesthetist. At first the Clintons lived in the country, in a house without indoor plumbing. Much has been made of Clinton's encounters with snakes in the outhouse, but he says, "We were not poor. A lot of rural Arkansas had no sewers back then." Billy was taken into town to attend...