I&aposm a kid that grew up dirt-poor in South Arkansas.
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I was in college the past two elections and was dirt poor.
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That would hardly help those near the bottom of a dirt-poor country.
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He arrived in the city at the age of 12 and dirt poor.
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But Nordic nations were ethnically homogeneous in 1800, when they were dirt poor.
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Would you be so keen to chat if you discovered she was dirt poor?
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The World Bank's yardstick is based on the poverty lines for 15 dirt-poor countries.
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Both parents were alcoholics, they died very young, grew up dirt poor, didn't have anything.
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Cratchit's family, which includes a wife and litter of pigs and frogs, is dirt poor.
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Two brothers (Adrian Grenier and Johnathon Schaech) who survived a dirt-poor childhood in Biloxi, Miss.
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She explains how they grew up dirt poor, like pretty much everyone in the slums of Davao.
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Pacquiao's family was dirt-poor, and, according to his autobiography, the family lived in a thatched hut.
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Gurao and other such places have generated extraordinary wealth in once dirt-poor parts of the country.
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Viewers expected to see Romero's film with scratches, warped audio, missing frames, and dirt-poor picture quality.
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His father, Michael Weinberg, was a Jew who was raised by a nice but "dirt poor" foster family.
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Even when you're dirt poor, just completely broke, still at least throw a dollar into your savings account.
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The great man (played convincingly by Rory Kinnear) is dirt-poor and always on the run from the police.
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Sure, they're free from the Pact, but they're dirt-poor and treated as second-class citizens in the Burgue.
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You, dirt-poor Charlie Bucket, and your grandfather will get to take a tour of Willy Sonoma's Bark Factory!
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Dirt poor and without much in the way of supervision, they spend their days sprinting around and getting into mischief.
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Born in a dirt-poor family in the north-east, as a child he sold oranges and peanuts on the street.
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Needing fresh horses, food and water, they find a dirt-poor frontier farm and the God-fearing family that lives there.
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Being dirt poor and ravaged by AIDS, it was needy; with just 17m inhabitants, a dollop of aid might visibly improve it.
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But in a vast nation where many of the people are unschooled and dirt poor, the Aadhaar system is far from foolproof.
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We have created more billionaires and millionaires — we made this nation wealthy while our people have remained dirt-poor without any opportunities.
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The Cumminses were another remarkable American family, originally dirt-poor Kansas homesteaders living in a one-room dugout cut out of a hillside.
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What we saw – from dirt-poor daily lives to clandestine economic activity on the Korean side – included scenes not yet witnessed in foreign media.
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There should not be one side of a city of people that are covered in piles of wealth while another side is dirt poor.
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The area is still dirt-poor, particularly once you get away from the honky-tonk tourist attractions and water parks surrounding the Wisconsin Dells.
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And because the people were literally dirt poor, the same pot was often used for everything from cooking their rice to watering their buffaloes.
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Yet in a dirt-poor country that relies too much on subsistence farming, too little is being done to plan for a post-oil economy.
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You don't really know where you're at until later on and you're like "Damn, we grew up dirt poor," but it is what it is.
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"My family was dirt-poor sharecroppers from North Carolina who didn't own slaves and weren't fighting to keep them," he said over dinner on Tuesday.
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But she was equal parts pit-bull, a pioneer farmer's daughter from dirt-poor Duck Hill, Mississippi who never dropped a topic she cared about. Never.
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Annie is clever and tough as nails and, as it turns out, has a clear idea what she wants: Money, since she was always dirt-poor.
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George Jung's gone from filthy rich drug smuggler to dirt poor unemployment ... but that's finally paying off for him with a reality TV gig about poverty.
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Clarence Thomas, who rose from a dirt poor town in Georgia during his youth to the marble temple of the highest court in the land, certainly does.
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Young, dirt-poor and without any significant options for moving their lives forward, they trudge around the small town they're stuck in, dragging a lawn mower with them.
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Parsons, a Vietnam War veteran who was once "dirt poor," suggested on "Squawk Box" he's a living example, and said his wealth is self-made, rather than being inherited.
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Instead the overriding ideology was to secure support for self-determination, with the Sudanese regime in Khartoum blamed for every failing in its dirt-poor new neighbour to the south.
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So emerging-market issues are in vogue: other countries recently selling bonds include Iraq and even dirt-poor Tajikistan (to finance a dam meant to export hydroelectricity to Afghanistan and Pakistan).
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Lomax's son, Alan, carried on his work, with surveys of the folk music of Spain and Italy, including children's songs in dirt-poor Extremadura and falsetto extravaganzas by dockers in Genoa.
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Indeed, before World War II the world's richest, most productive nation was also a nation with millions of dirt-poor farmers, many of whom didn't even have electricity or indoor plumbing.
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By the way, can't really blame Kuzma -- dude is still in his rookie deal with the Lakers ... which only pays him $5 mil over 3 years ... which by NBA superstar standards is dirt poor!
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Stevens: We realized that the women we were serving were still dirt poor, so we created this bath and body care company so women could have jobs, earn wages and make choices in their lives.
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Resolving the conflicts is Myanmar's most pressing task, since, for all the foreign investment and aid money putting a shine on Yangon, a dirt-poor country cannot develop without a widespread and deep-rooted peace.
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Kittle grew up dirt poor in Trimble, Ohio, at a time when the brick plants, iron works and coal mines were flickering out, the hills were stripped bare of timber and the rivers were dying from chemicals.
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Instead of a solitary smart Jew with a goatee, a few rich friends, innumerable enemies and a lot of dirt-poor Eastern European Jews clamoring for redemption, they saw an international man of mystery leading an invisible army.
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But if you go back to her roots, back to her beginning, [as an] absolutely dirt poor, uneducated Texas child... It really is quite astonishing what she managed, and the tragedy that she carried with her her whole life.
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Welk, for the benefit of … well, practically anyone not in assisted living … was the son of dirt-poor North Dakotan German immigrant farmers who earned enduring fame on a television variety show that ran unendingly in the 20th century.
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At this month's annual meeting of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of the BJP which holds considerable sway over the party, the chief guest was a member of the dirt-poor Dalit street sweeping community.
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It doesn't matter that she grew up dirt-poor in rural Tennessee or that she's been part of pop culture for five decades, but simply that she's a cartoonishly buxom peroxide blonde with a series of smart-mouthed quips.
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It recounted his tough maturation as the son of a veteran revolutionary who was persecuted by Mao, testing the family's loyalty to the Communist cause, and his seven years working in the dirt-poor countryside during the Cultural Revolution.
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China at that time was dirt poor and all but cut off from the rest of the world; Mao did not worry about the global impact, or the economic one, of the "great disorder under heaven" he boasted of having created.
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Raised dirt poor in rural Georgia by a millworker mother and a father who often went to the bar rather than home after work, Dad learned early on that his quickest route up the social ladder was through charm and smarts.
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The disease, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, believed to be caused by dehydration and malnutrition, has reached endemic proportions in Muzaffarpur, a dirt-poor district of the eastern state of Bihar, which has some of the worst child health statistics anywhere in the world.
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"I just didn't understand; I didn't understand any of it, like, I had led, you know, sort of a charmed life up until then, even though I grew up dirt poor," she added, noting that she had a great career, family and friends.
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I wasn't sure if DIRT PORTION was based off the phrase "dirt pour," which is a sound alike but is not a thing as far as I'm aware, or "dirt poor," which is definitely a thing, but not as much a sound alike.
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According to local sources, chilli crab was invented in the 50s by housewife Cher Yam Tian, back when Singapore was the ass-end of the British empire in Asia, a dirt-poor port and fishing town seemingly centuries away from the ultra-modern metropolis it is now.
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First published in 1949, a year after Leopold's death, it chronicled and celebrated the natural life amid the changing seasons around his scruffy weekend retreat and family farm, in a dirt-poor region of Wisconsin that starts an hour's drive north of Madison, the state capital.
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Introduced by Parton as "another true story of a Christmas miracle that happened during my childhood" (how many of those do most people get?), the movie picks up in 1955, where the young Dolly (Alyvia Alyn Lind) and her family remain dirt poor but filled with love and faith.
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Czifra went to a recovery meeting and saw people who looked like him and sounded like him, only these men weren't dirt poor and lonely—they had new Harleys and cute girlfriends and you could see right away that, even if they had been in prison, they weren't going back.
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I also did not want to dress today in one of my double-breasted Savile Row English suits because it would be a little too wealthy looking," says Stone, adding, "and I'm dirt poor at this point, having been destroyed financially by a two-year inquisition by Robert Mueller and his partisan hit squad.
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Specificially, Kazaks didn't appreciate the fact that Cohen was blithely filling a void of ignorance with an over-the-top image of their country as a dirt-poor, rabidly anti-Semitic, and misogynistic shithole known for exporting young boys to Michael Jackson's ranch, producing 300 tons of pubic hair a year, and shooting dogs for sport.
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B PLUS Zomba Prison Project: "I Will Not Stop Singing" (Six Degrees) Where the first album of prison recordings from dirt-poor Malawi showcased solo singing whose poignancy was diminished by non-English lyrics, here there's considerable band music by inmates you just know are planning for or dreaming of the outside, and will you ever root for them (Vincent Saulos, "I Am Done With Evil"; Thomas Ganisani, "Everything Has an Owner") ***
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On March 2, 1793, Greenleaf was named consul at the United States embassy in Amsterdam.Whelan, Frank. "Land Rich to Dirt Poor: James Greenleaf Gambled and Lost in Early D.C." Allentown Morning Call. July 4, 1999.
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Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.
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In May 2005 DeGraide founded Astonish Entertainment, also known as Astonish Records. He signed four rock artists: No More Kings with whom he used to play bass, Aranda, Soular, Dirt Poor Robins, and pop singer David Martin.
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Nicholson was born on a farm near Struble, Iowa. Nicholson has characterized his childhood as "growing up dirt poor in a tenant house without plumbing and sometimes without food".Official transcript of Nicholson's nomination, whitehouse.gov; Accessed March 13, 2007.
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Trimble grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He worked in the steel mills dragging slag off the steel melts in the furnaces. In 1936 he was left tackle on the football team of Elgin Academy (a private prep school) in Elgin, Ill. Dirt poor it is unknown who sponsored his enrollment.
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As a boy, Miller did farm work, such as picking cotton and plowing. He later said he was "dirt poor" and that as late as 1951 the family did not own a telephone. He received his primary education at a one-room schoolhouse. Miller was an introverted child, and often daydreamed or composed songs.
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Wohlers grew up "dirt poor" in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His parents divorced when he was nine years old and he was raised primarily by his mother, Irene. He began working at fourteen years old, washing dishes in a restaurant until midnight. Wohlers committed to play college baseball for the Maine Black Bears before graduating from Holyoke High School in 1988.
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Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel, and was raised in a Jewish household. He practiced playing his guitar for hours on end. He has said that his family was "dirt poor," scraping by on rationed bread and milk. At age seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend.
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Two white girls accused the nine black teenagers of rape. Locked in a cell awaiting trial, the "Scottsboro boys looked to be prime lynching material: dirt poor, illiterate, and of highly questionable moral character even for teenagers." The Communist Party and the NAACP both hoped to prove themselves as the party to represent the black community.
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Mchinji is described as "dirt poor" by The Times. Harvesting rain- fed agriculture is the main occupation in Mchinji, with groundnuts, tobacco, soya and casava beans being the primary cash crops. Maize, yams, velvet beans and pumpkin are prominent food crops. During the dry season, secondary activities are pursued, such as brick-making, beer brewing, bicycle repair and carpentry.
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He describes his upbringing as "dirt-poor." His father worked two jobs (as a foundry employee and as a barber) to support the family. Roberts credits his father with instilling in him the value of education. Roberts worked full-time while attending Western Michigan University at night, where he graduated with honors, with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
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Walter McMillian, who was born on October 27, 1941, lived in a black settlement near Monroeville where he "grew up picking cotton." Monroe County was described by The Guardian as "a remote, dirt-poor region of pine trees and bean farms". McMillian purchased logging and paper mill equipment and became a "moderately successful businessman". He was described by The New Yorker as a black pulpwood worker.
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Forman was born on October 4, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. As an 11-month-old baby, he was sent to live with his grandmother, "Mama Jane", on her farm in Marshall County, Mississippi. He was raised in a "dirt-poor" environment; it was not uncommon for him to eat dirt because it was believed to have some nutritional value. In his autobiography, he called eating dirt a "staple" of his diet.
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The song is about a dirt-poor farmer struggling to support his family, bemoaning a stack of bills, his family's needs, animals that won't produce and land that is barren. He even tries to ask his brother for assistance, but his brother was actually going to come to him for help. Finally, he admits he's going to pack up his family and leave to find a better life.
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The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Julie Chen was born in Queens, New York City. Her grandfather, Lou Gaw Tong, grew up "dirt poor" in the rural village of Penglai in the Fujian province of China, but became wealthy through a chain of grocery stores and ultimately became a polygamist with nine wives and 11 children. Julie has two older sisters, Gladys and Victoria.Dec 10 episode of The Talk.
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Cord met and quickly fell for Tina Clayton, and followed her back to Llanview. Tina reciprocated his interest, but had no intention of marrying a dirt-poor cowboy like Cord...until she discovered that he was Clint's biological son, and potential heir to the Buchanan mega-billions! After learning that, she wasted no time marrying him. Maria, who pegged Tina as a gold-digging tramp from their first meeting, became bitter enemies with her.
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Rhonda Bleenie Rhonda Bleenie is a smart, stubborn, and loud girl. She is friends with Amelia because of geography and nothing else. She was well known for her hairstyle until she adapted a more down-to-earth look, as well as her unabashed love for Reggie. Pajamaman Being the most popular kid in class, being dirt poor, never speaking, and never changing out of his “footie” pajamas requires the magic of this man...Pajamaman.
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In 2008, Cosper began conversations with record producer/independent musician Neil Degraide (who tours under the moniker Neil Robins as part of the band Dirt Poor Robins) on a major new project. Cosper wanted to “rewrite the hymnal” of Isaac Watts, an 18th-century pastor and poet often described as the “Father Of English Hymnody.” They decided to record two full albums of songs adapted from or inspired by the hymns of Watts.
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Dela Rosa was born on January 21, 1962 at Barangay Bato, Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur, to Teodoro Diamaton dela Rosa Sr. and Anesia Cruspero Marapon. His family was "dirt poor" as his father earned little money working as a tricycle driver. The young Dela Rosa worked as a fish market porter and bus conductor. Dela Rosa is a senator who went to Mindanao State University (MSU) to study for a Bachelor of Science degree in public administration.
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"Abner Louima, from dirt-poor to a great many times a millionaire and ultra-celebrity", Wehaitians.com. Retrieved December 7, 2006. There, he discussed setting up the Abner Louima Foundation, a nonprofit organization to raise additional money to build a community center and hospital in Haiti. Louima indicated he had plans to use his own money and donations to open community centers in Haiti, New York, and Florida for Haitians and others seeking legal, financial or other aid.
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During the mid-1960s, he started his career as a spoken word artist on folk festival, coffeehouse and theatre tours across Canada, he then became editor of a native newspaper named The Thunderbird,"Joni: `Dirt poor,' 20 and pregnant Excerpts from a new book reveal details of Joni Mitchell's life in '60s Toronto". Toronto Star, April 7, 1997. and was a determined organizer of protests and spoke on native rights issues."Shaman of the global village".
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Tarō Yamada is smart, athletic, and very handsome. He seems perfect on the outside, but he's actually dirt poor due to his mother's reckless spending habits and his always-gone father. Although never once does he admit it, everyone at school thinks he is a very humble rich boy because of his good looks. However, at home, he must care for his six younger siblings, who share a one-bedroom place with him and his mother.
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Whereas Wes came from a rich family, Eric worked hard and was dirt poor, and eventually decided to leave the school, saying that he had "bigger plans". Eric was resentful for having to work so hard while Wes did not have to work at all. From this, Eric grew bitter and had few friends, although Wes tried to befriend him on several occasions. After discovering that Wes is the Red Time Force Ranger, Eric attempts to find his own powers.
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Belden, Joseph N. "Dirt Rich, Dirt Poor: America's Food and Farm Crisis" 1986. Later, Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which was enacted on May 12, 1933, aimed to bring back pre World War 1 Farmers' abilities to sell farm products for the same worth they were able to buy non-farm products. The Act involved seven different crops: corn, wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco, and milk. Farmers were paid to not plant those seven crops, thus decreasing supply and returning to market equilibrium.
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" Cale was coming from this very soulful white > music. It was at Delaney's insistence that I did ['After Midnight'], and > that was probably one of the first songs we decided to record. And that > began my association with J.J., really. Cale was unaware of Clapton's recording of the song until it became a radio hit in 1970. He recalled to Mojo magazine that when he heard Clapton's version playing on his radio, "I was dirt poor, not making enough to eat and I wasn’t a young man.
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Capp's parents were both natives of Latvia whose families had migrated to New Haven in the 1880s. "My mother and father had been brought to this country from Russia when they were infants", wrote Capp in 1978. "Their fathers had found that the great promise of America was true — it was no crime to be a Jew." The Caplins were dirt-poor, and Capp later recalled stories of his mother going out in the night to sift through ash barrels for reusable bits of coal.
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According to a 2012 interview with Katie Sullivan, Bainum was born in Takoma Park, Maryland to Irvin C. Bainum, a banker, and Evea J. Bainum, and raised "dirt poor" with his older brother Timothy. His paternal uncle, Stewart W. Bainum, Sr., was the founder of Choice Hotels, a hotel chain, and HCR Manor Care, a retirement facility chain. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii to attend the University of Hawaii Surgical Residency Program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.Nakaso, Dan.
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Danny lives in a one bedroom apartment in "Shabazi", a run down neighborhood crumbling over the heads of its inhabitants – dirt poor day laborers, junkies and the homeless, who find refuge in abandoned buildings. One rainy evening Danny almost runs over Gideon, an army comrade, who is now a homeless junkie. Gideon tries to tell Danny about some sinister scam that is going on around in the ‘hood, but he's too high, too scared and too confused. The next day Gideon is found murdered, but the police have no real interest in another dead junkie.
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Croesus-rich or dirt-poor, every Orthodox Jew is dressed to face the Almighty on the same terms. The Early Christian Church also strongly encouraged the use of winding-sheets, except for monarchs and bishops. The rich were wrapped in cerecloths, which are fine fabrics soaked or painted in wax to hold the fabric close to the flesh. An account of the opening of the coffin of Edward I says that the "innermost covering seems to have been a very fine linen cerecloth, dressed close to every part of the body".
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The film focuses on two young people in love, Chad Bixby (Wagner) and Sarah "Salome" Davis (Wood), who are forced apart and marry others, then brought together again by chance. The film also examines, in a melodramatic style, the experience of starting off "dirt poor" and ending up "idle rich", and concludes that after the changes in lifestyle, the personalities remain the same. Wagner's character is loosely based on the jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Pearl Bailey plays a down-on-her-luck blues singer who mothers Wagner's character, while guiding his career.
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Members of Mama Lion also formed the band Heavy Cruiser with Merryweather now on lead vocals, recording two albums whose genre was closer to hard rock, bit also displayed psychedelic and progressive influences. He then worked for a couple of years as a session musician with artists including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In the early 70s, he described himself as being "dirt poor", until his big break in 1975 when his manager got him an audition with Elton John. He joined John's band and toured with them as keyboardist during the late 70s and early 80s.
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Mark Bowden, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, described traveling to Pakistan to interview Shah Muhammad and Shabidzada Usman, another young Pakistani who was among the first captives to be released. Bowden described being met by "warmth and elaborate courtesy" by the two released men, who he described as "uneducated, unworldly, and dirt poor". Bowden believed their accounts that they were rounded up and sold to the Americans by undiscriminating warlords, for a bounty, who didn't care if they were innocent. On an official list of the captives' departure dates from Guantanamo published in November 2008, his name was published as "Sha Mohammed Alikhel".
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It was an exceptionally rare sight for Roses to have sponsored a Winston Cup car; especially around the point Roses getting hammered much like the other discount chains blindsided by the rapid expansion of Wal-Mart. Most people sat on the backstretch bleachers, they were wooden just like at the local parks. Most people were dirt poor during the mid-1990s due to the changing economy in the Southeastern United States and were glad to able to afford the race tickets. Gordon's crew chief Ray Evernham made the call for two tires while Wallace's crew chief made the call for four.
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Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of Congregational Church minister, the Reverend Charles Adams. His childhood was anything but idyllic and his parents separated when he was young. Interviewed in 2006, Adams said that: > My first memories were my mother... absolutely dependent on the begging bowl > – that little round dish with a piece of cloth at the bottom where > parishioners would put a couple of bob. When dad went off to the war, I was > taken up by my grandparents... and lived on a dirt-poor farm... I lived in > penury for the first 10, 15 years of my life.
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Garlic (Nicky Wu) and Gimmick (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are both young CID police officers who are assigned to crack a drug case. While waiting for their informant at a park we find out that Garlic is named Garlic because he likes to eat raw garlic, comes from a rich family and doesn't really need to work but he is a cop because he enjoys his work. Gimmick is dirt poor, he lives off of Garlic, even the clothes and underwear he is wearing belongs to Garlic. Both are also extremely arrogant, think they are handsome and gods gift to women.
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As one account has put it, she "started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land." Having obtained a U.S. Re-entry Permit—only granted to immigrants intending to stay and gain citizenship—she returned to Scotland on the SS Cameronia on September 12, 1934. She was recorded as living in New York by April 1935 in the 1940 U.S. Census. Though the 1940 census form filed by Mary Anne and her husband Fred Trump stated that she was a naturalized citizen, she did not actually become one until March 10, 1942.
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Losing to a gangster really sucks in this game; especially when he's cheating. A secret agent named Pete Rosetti, who is going undercover as an inteprid gambler, must turn the Mafia from filthy rich to dirt poor in a series of gambling games in order to arrest them. The initial rounds of the game involve blackjack, poker and slot machines; with the final confrontation being done on five-card draw poker. For a price, players can also buy special cheating tools in the hopes of making a profit of the gangsters who often use cheating methods of their own.
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" 3 -Kirkus Review, on The Endless Search: A Memoir: "Two-time winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, Ray (English Emeritus/Univ. of Missouri) is one of only a handful of poets to garner a following among nonacademics. While selections of his poetry, eloquent and intensely personal, are scattered throughout the present volume, the topic at hand concerns a boy ever in search of his missing father, or a surrogate. After growing up in Oklahoma during the Depression, son of a dirt-poor sharecropper and an obsessive mother who hated dirt in all its forms, Ray was shuffled among relatives and foster homes, later spending time on an Arizona ranch.
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Kennan was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Kossuth Kent Kennan, a lawyer specializing in tax law, a descendant of dirt-poor Scotch-Irish settlers of 18th-century Connecticut and Massachusetts, who was named after the Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth (1802–94), and Florence James Kennan. Mrs. Kennan died two months later due to peritonitis from a ruptured appendix, though Kennan long believed that she died after giving birth to him. The boy always lamented not having a mother; he was never close to his father or stepmother, however, he was close to his older sisters. At the age of eight, he went to Germany to stay with his stepmother in order to learn German.
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Wilkie Clark In this biography, Clark-Frieson posthumously claims for her father the historical remembrance and distinction that she believes he rightfully deserves as an Alabama Champion for Civil and Human Rights. Thus, she writes him into history, through her book. As a result of the publication of the biography, on February 19, 2005, Clark posthumously received historical distinction by resolution of the Randolph County Commission, The Roanoke City Council, and the Mayor of the City of Five Points, Alabama. Clark's biography tells the story of a dirt-poor boy who grew up under the oppressive conditions of Jim Crow in the South, and emerged from raw racial oppression to become a self-made, and self-taught entrepreneur.
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However, Hill remembers "these dirt-poor days ... [as] among the best and the most carefree of my life, and though my friends were often scoundrels, I felt their friendship convincingly." Beverly Johnson had previously started to bridge the gender gap at Camp 4, but it remained strongly male-dominated. The community was particularly homosocial; its major historian calls it "edgy" rather than "oppressive" and argues that there was pressure on women to perform to men's standards and that "women had to contend with an army of men trying to maintain Camp 4 as a guy's domain". There was no coherent female climbing community; rather, female climbers tended to adopt the masculine attitudes of their compatriots.
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The name Shaunavon is believed to be a combination of the names of Lord Shaughnessy and William Cornelius Van Horne, two of the four founders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, although there is inconclusive evidence that suggests otherwise. The most damaging of this evidence is from Mr. F.G. Horsey, the CPR townsite representative in 1913, who said "he was personally in the Calgary office when a wire came through from Lord Shaughnessy declining the honour of having the town named after him, but suggesting that they name it Shaunavon after an area about his home in the old country . . .". However, Shaughnessy was of Irish descent, but was born to dirt poor parents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thus, the existence of any kind of an old country estate is highly unlikely, and no such place shows up in Irish place name references.
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Barely out of his teens, Dhan Gopal had absorbed enough revolutionary ideology from his peers to have been well on the way to following in his brother's footsteps, and may not have left India entirely willingly. Dhan Gopal took his ideology with him to America where he fell in with a number of dirt-poor 'anarchists' like himself. His experiences among them, in San Francisco and New York, are detailed in 'Outcast', the second section of his autobiography. In San Francisco he looked about for a way to support himself and pay for his college education, and soon lit upon writing. Around 1916 he wrote Sandhya, Songs of Twilight and Rajani or Songs of the Night, two books of poems, and Laila Majnu, a musical play in three acts, all published by Paul Elder and Co. of San Francisco.
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Montaño was expected to fight Sijara Eubanks for the inaugural UFC Women's Flyweight Championship at The Ultimate Fighter 26 Finale on December 1, 2017. However, Eubanks was pulled from the fight for kidney failure while trying to make weight, and was replaced by Roxanne Modafferi. Montaño won the fight via unanimous decision and claimed the inaugural UFC Women's Flyweight Championship title. This win also earned her the Fight of the Night bonus. At the post fight interview, Montaño revealed her financial struggles prior to her win and her appreciation for the prize money she was about to receive: > “We were dirt poor just before tonight in all reality. I’m going to go move > to an apartment with some water pressure, and buy some good food and treats > for my cats.” Montaño was scheduled to face Valentina Shevchenko on September 8, 2018 at UFC 228. However, prior to the weigh-ins for the event, Montaño was transported to a hospital due to the effects of weight cutting and the bout was cancelled.
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