Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...custom 8-ft. by 28-ft., self-propelled motor home with her constant companions?a miniature gray poodle named Jacques and a huge, dignified Scottish deerhound named Ghillie. She moored the $18,000 bus on a dairy farm in Maryland. A Government limousine would pull up every morning, and Ray and her two dogs would be whisked to the AEC offices. At her suggestion, the AEC was reorganized in 1975 into two agencies and Ray then moved on to become Assistant Secretary of State for scientific affairs. When Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dodged her frequent requests for meetings...
Once back home, Ray plunged into politics: "I decided I'd been telling other people what to do for a long time. I'd better put my money where my mouth was, and that's why I became a candidate. Why did I choose to run for Governor? I didn't have time to start any lower...
...Republican or Democrat? Ray never had decided before, since Washington does not have party registration. She chose the Democrats because, she says, "although I tend to be fiscally conservative, I believe in the philosophy of the Democratic Party...
...Inauguration Day last January, 42 Ray relatives showed up, and the Governor's Georgian mansion was as lively and cozy as the two-bedroom house where she and her four sisters had been brought up. There was a football game on the front lawn and jars of plums and applesauce from Fox Island in the kitchen. Ray plopped down into the high-backed chair in her office, twirling a plastic glass filled with champagne. "Well, we made it," she announced. "How sweet...
...while, anyway. Since election day, Ray's popularity has dropped sharply. NIX ON DIXY bumper stickers are starting to appear, and critics are complaining about "Raydiation." Her decline in esteem is due in part to the fact that Ray has turned out to be something of an autocrat, who insists on loyalty at every level. One of her first acts was to replace the staff at the Governor's mansion, including some servants who had been there for years. Her aides, says one fellow Democrat, "aren't just yes people. They're yes-yes-yes people. She intimidates...