Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first I just needed a job," Abbott said. "I was more of a guileless fool than anything. My friend Man Ray ran a portrait studio in Paris and wanted an assistant," she added...
When Crews' father left the swamp to go home to Bacon County, Georgia, he took a little money and a gold watch, inscribed "To Ray Crew, Pioneer Builder of the Tamiami Trail." He left behind a testicle, lost to the raging case of gonorrhea he contracted during their brief and unsatisfactory coupling...
...Ray went home to Bacon County, got married, and spent the next few years trading one barren farm for another, always behind at the bank. One story especially illuminates the Crews' plight during these years: In 1936 they got a little ahead and were able to buy two cows. Early one morning, Mrs. Crews, cleaning the floor with homemade lye, happened to notice their two cows wandering towards a barrel of lead poisoning used for spraying tobacco plants. She yelled for Ray, but far out in the fields he couldn't hear her, and so she started for the cows...
...Ray died--of hard work, Crews suggests. The night he died, one of his friends stole all the meat in the smokehouse. Not apparently a friend or supposedly a friend, says Crews--a friend, and a close one. "It was a hard time in that land, and a lot of men did things for which they were ashamed and suffered for the rest of their lives. But they did them because of hunger and sickness and because they could not bear the sorry spectacle of their children dying for lack of a doctor and their wives growing old before they...
That is not always easy. Carter's cuts have already stirred some Cabinet-level grumbling. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall warned, though in a rather subdued fashion, that the reductions should not fall too heavily on job-creation programs. He said that the Administration will have "to prove that putting people on unemployment and welfare is less inflationary than giving them jobs." Patricia Harris, the outspoken Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, sent a sharply worded memo to OMB saying that she could not live with the proposed cuts in her department. The White House was especially irked when the memo...