Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he was speculating), despite the fact that the legal loan limit for that bank was $100,000. Since he began his fight against Communism, his bank accounts have improved greatly. In the last four years, he has deposited in one bank account $172,623.18, and his administrative assistant Ray Kiermas has deposited $96,921.26. The subcommittee's implied question: Where did all this dough come from...
Hygiene's widespread precautionary system has prevented the spread of any major epidemic since the great flu rage of 1918. The only recent flare-up was another rash of influenza that was quickly scotched two years ago. In '48 a state-subsidized chest x-ray program found only 3 cases of active tuberculosis out of 7.563 pictures, well below the national average...
...history. Instead of the cream-puff stuff fashionable bands were spooning out, Benny had his men play the jive they lived for. Dragging players came to fear Benny's long, poker-faced squint aimed at them over the tops of his glasses. They called it simply "The Ray." He rehearsed them until they swung as one-a writhing, flashing, soaring serpent of sound. "If you're interested in music," Benny remarks soberly, "you can't slop around. I expected things, and they had to be done. Yeah, they'd grumble, but I think the band really...
...will ever have to hold a benefit for Sugar Ray. In the months before he finally made up his mind to retire, he had already moved into a new career in show business. His current salary as a tap dancer: a reported $10,000 a week...
Last week the surgeons were ready. They had already done a dozen operations and proved that the babies had separate brains and nervous systems, with no connecting arteries. But even with the most elaborate X-ray methods, there was no way for the doctors to know just what they would find when they opened the double skull...