Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sigmund Lance Ross...
Ferraro even handled a brush with Southern chauvinism with an aplomb worthy of Scarlett O'Hara. As the candidates dryly discussed farm issues near a soybean field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross...
...oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past 21 years has been Joe Layton (a director of some note, as Diana Ross, Bette Midler or Barbra Streisand could tell you), who was saying to the cast during their muggy dress rehearsal, "You're boring. You're dull. Everybody's sounding alike. Everybody's saying lines...
...kept repeating. "I've worked 32 years in politics, and nothing has made me so happy," sobbed Billie Carr, Democratic National Committeewoman. Carr was 27 days old when she was taken to the 1928 Houston Democratic Convention, where the nation's first elected woman Governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, was briefly presented as a vice-presidential nominee and gave a seconding speech for Al Smith...
...recent years, no firms that underwent leveraged buyouts have failed. But Wilbur Ross, managing director of Wall Street's Rothschild Inc., warns: "The real test will come the next time you have a combination of high interest rates and a bad economic environment. When that happens, we'll see just how prudent some of these deals really were." As every sensible investor should know, a formula designed to create huge profits in good times can eventually lead to enormous losses in bad times...