Use "dixie" in a sentence

1. I kept drinking little Dixie cups of water then crushing them in my hand and kung-fu kicking them across the room

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2. Most of the men had not tasted fresh ice cream for many months, having to content themselves with the small Dixie cups of the dessert that were served from time to time in the mess hall

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3. On the same trip, Dixie and I arrived in front of a friend’s Hyde Park row house while he was hosing his black neighbor’s spilt guts (blown out and away by a

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4. Footnote needed here: My wife’s full name was Dixie Lee Rose, not D

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5. Dixie earned her BS and MS in Biological Sciences at Arizona State, and was actually quite smart—except in choice of husband

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6. One month later, I was told by Motorola that I was being transferred to Phoenix two and one-half years earlier than we had mutually agreed upon because the assistant GC was deathly ill with Valley Fever (which nearly killed my late wife, Dixie, in fall 1974 while we were in Oakland

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7. Classes finished early enough for me to meet my future wife, Dixie Lee Rose, who lived in same Tempe apartment complex on Apache Trail across from old ASU football stadium, halfway home at the old Phoenix Municipal Stadium, home of the Triple A Giants, San Francisco’s top farm team

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8. Dixie was quite the fan because, during her years at ASU ‘62-‘67, the Sun Devils featured such future major leaguers as Reggie Jackson (who also played football first two years), Sal Bando, Rick Monday, Lerrin LaGrow, Larry Gura and many others whose less famous names escape me 35 years later

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9. Dixie and I drank some more Saturday night

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10. Figuring that I was already deep enough in shit for my airport fiasco, and not yet being married to Dixie, when the course ended, I said, “What the hell, why go straight back to Phoenix?” Monday was going to be a “bear” when I had to face Mack

11. Sunday evening, he took me to airport; Dixie picked me up at Sky Harbor and dropped me back at my 44th street town house

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12. My wife of only one year, Dixie, absolutely refused to move

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13. I also met a few single fast and loose young ladies at Motorola, so I could practice the double standard and wait Dixie out

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14. got married first, so Dixie moved home to Scottsdale with her parents

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15. Dixie would drop me at work and usually picked me up, but if she couldn’t, I just walked the one mile in 110 degree heat with my suit jacket slung over my shoulder

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16. Fortunately, Dixie put me on her USG health benefits which came in very handy in August

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17. At least Dixie was consistent regarding not jumping off sinking ships

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18. We were then still childless, but Dixie had a good job as a GS-9, first female supervisory technician with the USDA’s laboratory in Mesa

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19. Because of the stressful times with Jenkins, I had abandoned my habit of having Dixie make me a brown bag lunch to eat at my desk

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20. After perhaps one year at Thomas Road Apartments, Dixie and I moved to Tempe, five blocks due west of the old Post Office, and 12 blocks from Sun Devil Stadium

21. So Dixie and I walked to the games for five years and sat on the 48 yard line, visitors’ side

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22. In the spring of 1973, Dixie wanted a house because she was pregnant

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23. Dixie and I left for Oakland to escape the madness

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24. Dixie and I delayed eight days at her parents’ Scottsdale home in our journey from Oakland to Pascagoula, MS, (where I had accepted a job as SupShip Pascagoula Counsel, i

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25. At the time of the interview, early December 1973, Dixie was due around Christmas

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26. Ironically, that is just what Dixie became after we moved to Oakland and I earned $22,000 per annum equaling the total of our AZ salaries (forget about the COL differential!)

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27. Sight unseen, based on a short phone call, he invited me and Dixie to come up and spend a few days

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28. Soon after returning to Tempe, Kaiser called with a very generous offer, $22,000 and fully paid relocation including one month in a motel in Lafayette during which Dixie could use one of our two cars to house hunt

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29. Dixie wanted to stay home with Will, so it appeared to be win-win

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30. So Dixie and I went to Oakland where I worked for Kaiser Engineers

31. So Dixie and I again moved, this time to Pascagoula, MS, where I became the Navy lawyer at Ingalls shipyard

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32. Dixie had several realtors show her houses, all way out of our price range even after drawing out her $7k lump sum federal pension

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33. He bribed me into secrecy by promising not to tell old man Meyer that I had brought home a 6-pak of Stroh’s to share with Dixie

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34. During the summer, as I saw Engineering’s prospects deteriorate from bad to worse, I launched into an outdoors painting process that I would not explain to Dixie

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35. One of the most ignominious moments of our marriage occurred immediately after Dixie had the upper half of her left lung removed at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Walnut Creek

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36. I stayed in the car with Will who was not yet one year old while Dixie, on narcotic post-op painkillers, went inside and qualified for her own UEC

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37. About August of our sojourn in the East Bay, Dixie was so homesick that she took Will and flew home to AZ for eight days

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38. Once I got up the nerve to tell Dixie that I had been laid off (can’t say your are fired when the entire company is laid off), she understood that we only needed one car because she could always drop me at the BART station to go into The City for job interviews and pick me up when I called from there

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39. I told DJW that I had been slandered and lost a good paying job at a time when Dixie and I desperately needed to get out of Phoenix because publicity about Jenkins’ smuggling was in the process of ruining MY reputation

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40. Westinghouse never apologized, but within two years, while Dixie and I were living in Orinda, after I had been laid off by Kaiser along with Gerri Randall, WEC flew me all the way from SFO to Pittsburgh and again interviewed me for an entire day for a job in the transportation section of their Legal Dept

41. Again, we desperately needed it because Dixie was ill with Valley Fever, had not yet had the operation at Kaiser Health in Walnut Creek during which the upper half of her left lung was removed

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42. I was signed up to take the February 1975 exam, but Dixie, Will, and I left Orinda in early January

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43. I responded to an ad in the west coast edition of the WSJ for a job in Navy OGC at General Dynamics’ Pomona cruise missile plant which would have been great because I could have rented a small apartment locally and commuted home to Orinda using the dirt cheap air fares on Air Cal and PSA, allowing Dixie and Will to keep the Orinda house

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44. Dixie was (mis) diagnosed with lung cancer the first time that fall

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45. I don’t think that my smug 3L UCLS housemates can ever begin to imagine the pain that Dixie and I felt during those years

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46. Dixie stayed home with two young boys, drank the day away with Faye Ramirez, the woman across the street

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47. Dixie got sober in AA in early 1984

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48. Again, I was highly interested because I could have commuted each week from Oakland leaving Dixie and Will in the house we could not sell

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49. I say that based on first hand knowledge because he and his first wife, Caroline, lived with their two very young kids in the same rental townhouses where Dixie and I spent our first two years

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50. Dixie and I had not joined a church in Orinda

51. Dixie became especially close to Juanita

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52. although the grand poobahs of Methodism had recently relaxed the Discipline to allow the moderate consumption of alcohol (Dixie and I already were alkies, however), Lips forbade it to any church officers, etc

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53. Dixie hid out in the nursery every Sunday, although both of us attended adult Sunday School

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54. Dixie and I had Will and Mike baptized by Linda in front of my parents who drove over from Tallahassee

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55. Dixie made friends with many of the ladies in her club and kept her friends from GUMC when we joined the GPC

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56. Dixie thought I did not want to eat her turkey

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57. Dixie, while she was divorcing me, let me sleep in our basement with the cats

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58. Instead, Dixie heard me crying when I came home

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59. After having been hung out to dry by NNS, I was going to take the EB job regardless of what Dixie thought

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60. Dixie and I celebrated the illusory NNS job by taking three weeks’

61. valiantly tried to keep us cool traversing Texas both ways, but Dixie

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62. Three days later, Dixie had me paged to the USAir counter at the

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63. Don Moore, because of their having found out that Dixie saw shrinks

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64. All that Dixie and I could afford to do was spend the

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65. In summer 1985, I was not a happy camper when Dixie filed for divorce, especially when I found out the circumstance under which she “found” her attorney, a red headed vixen named Lorraine Eckerd

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66. ” For the next several months, Dixie let me sleep in the finished basement (which we used as our family room with TV and stereo) with our two cats on the weekends when I was back home from helping try a case versus GD/EB in Marshall, TX

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67. Upon getting home, I called Dixie and told her that I was finally ready to “admit that my life was unmanageable

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68. Dixie drove me to this rehab in RI Tuesday morning with a paper shopping bag full of extra AA books she had accumulated via her uncanny luck of winning raffles

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69. They agreed that my salary would be only $50k; whereas my end-of-the-year, under-the-table cash bonus would be $35k so as to defraud Dixie by understating my pay

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70. I thought that I would soon be living in the paradise where Dixie and I had honeymooned and which we visited frequent when my pal from Tallahassee, was on active duty in Imperial Beach

71. It helped immensely that Dixie was in the program for nearly two years when she summoned up all her courage and threw me out of the house at 98 Leitao Drive

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72. I told her bluntly that I, too, was an alcoholic, that I needed to quit, and knew that AA worked because Dixie had “white knuckled” her way through nine months by then

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73. I messed up badly raising Will and Mike with three and one-half years’ sobriety when Dixie died! Mom did give me $5k when Dad’s sister Lillian finally died in Atlanta

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74. Dixie took pity on me and let me take my shower back at our house which was sort of on the way to EB

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75. Dixie knew that it was beyond my capabilities as a totally not humble person to ask some older man with lots of years to help me

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76. Dixie approached a “council of elders” and begged that one of them would take me on as a “pigeon” (before that term fell into disuse as being not pc)

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77. ’s reunion in 1986 that I attended by myself while still separated from Dixie

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78. After Dixie died, she and I (15 years younger and a very pretty blonde with her BS in psychology, 3

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79. We soon progressed to movies and dinners, but she was frigid and still grieving her fiancé, Peter, who had died one year before Dixie

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80. Soon after Dixie died, I joined the Professional Singles Association which was then very active with dineouts, hikes, volleyball, house parties, etc

81. After my therapist felt we had dealt adequately with my booze problem from her perspective, I kept on seeing her anyway to deal with single parenting, dating again, and co-dependency issues (both Dixie, even in death, and Mike)

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82. ” It was just betting on football with Motorola co-workers, but Dixie made it plain after the first year of our marriage that she was tired of emptying ashtrays, fetching beer, and watching me “double down” and lose more than beer money

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83. ” I had been traveling constantly since 1979, much of it by choice to stay away from Dixie, who had a much lower bottom than I, e

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84. Dixie initially refused to move to CT with me and wanted a divorce

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85. Dixie remained an agnostic but was active in church

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86. On her death bed, Dixie had warned me about our two sons while she was very lucid

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87. So I got on the “mommy track” at work, constantly leaving to take Mike home, or worse, to doctors and dentists all of whom Dixie had found in Norwich, not New London

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88. My late wife, Dixie Lee Rose, was born April 26, 1944, to Robert Lee Rose and Bettie Willie Dixon in Trinidad, CO, a small mining and ranching town south of Pueblo on what is now I–25

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89. Bettie Dixon had at least one sibling, Uncle Jack Dixon, who ranched on the Western Slope in Delta at the time Dixie and I married on Valentine’s Day, 2-14-70, in Tempe, AZ

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90. Dixie and her older brother, Dale who died 12-31-07 in Salt Lake City where he lived less than one mile from Bettie’s home, attended the one-room school at Kim

91. Dixie graduated from Scottsdale H

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92. Dixie entered Arizona State University Fall 1962 and roomed her first year with Patty McGlinchy who later married Gerry Pauli

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93. That is one reason, years later, that both Bettie and Bonnie told me not to beat myself up so badly for having made Dixie into an alcoholic during our marriage

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94. Dixie received her BS in zoology in 1967, then began course work for her MS in entomology (uck, the study of bugs—she was forever telling me that spiders were not “insects,” rather they were arachnids)

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95. If we did, from then on, like him, we would have only eaten hamburgers at picnics! Dixie co-wrote many published scientific papers with her boss, Dr

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96. Bonnie modestly concedes that while she is smart, that Dale was the smartest, and Dixie, like her Dad, read the most

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97. It was probably during her junior year that Bonnie called Dixie and told her that her boyfriend had received his draft notice, and they were booking out for Canada

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98. Dixie was an excellent homemaker, great cook, talented seamstress, and avid gardener

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