Word: bullheaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ELLA MAE MORSE, 75, ebullient, genre-defying vocalist whose Cow-Cow Boogie was Capitol Records' first million-selling hit; in Bullhead City, Ariz. Among Morse's other signatures were House of Blue Lights, Shoo-Shoo Baby, and Mister Five by Five...
...endless lines for $1 Powerball tickets, which are sold in 20 states and Washington. As the sum got larger and larger, so too did the crowds making pilgrimages across state lines to buy a piece of the dream. Sometimes skipping work, the hopeful drove from Los Angeles to Bullhead City, Ariz., from Chicago to Kenosha County, Wis., from Brooklyn and Queens to the posh New York City suburb of Greenwich, Conn., where residents (many already in possession of millions of dollars) grew frustrated by the hordes that gathered daily in ticket lines that snaked around whole village blocks. Greenwich police...
Broken homes are the common thread that binds the lives of drifters. An accident or an illness can push someone over the brink. Wes Moreland, living in a $125-a-week room at the El Rio Motel in Bullhead City since March, says his life fell apart after a near fatal car accident in 1984. A onetime maintenance man in Thornton, Colorado, he lost three years of work, 64 lbs., and "my wife felt I wasn't the handsome young man she married." Three years ago, after his wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody...
Moreland's roommate of several weeks, Sidney Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California...
...million to his wife. "I'd always been a good father and a good husband. I raised five healthy kids. But I didn't want to be part of it anymore. The hollering kids, the tuition bills-no more." After 21 months on the road, he landed in Bullhead City. "More and more people are selling their homes," he says. "They're sick of society...