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- Rachid stopped making child support payments after paying them twice, and to make ends meet Monique returned to nursing.
- Attendance for games was down and the owners tried selling off their star players in order to make ends meet.
- To make ends meet, Goldmark also pursued a side career as a music journalist.
- She took in laundry to wash to make ends meet, and at eight years old, Josephine began working as a live-in domestic for white families in St.
- He landed a gig at a burlesque house in Buffalo, but his performance fell flat and he was unable to book anymore shows. To make ends meet, Lewis worked as a soda jerk and a theater usher for Suzanne Pleshette's father Gene at the Paramount Theatre as well as at Loew's Capitol Theatre, both in New York City.
- With her grandmother struggling to make ends meet at the age of 60, and after Mary went to London in 1777, Emma began work, aged 12, as a maid at the Hawarden home of Honoratus Leigh Thomas, a surgeon working in Chester.
- He turned to journalism to make ends meet, and from 1886 was a full-time union organiser as secretary of the Ayrshire Miners' Union.
- Krabs deciding to "fight tooth and nail in order to make ends meet for (his) crippling ketamine addiction."
- Emma struggles to make ends meet, but is helped by Murphy.
- Otherwise, he continued to produce a stream of articles to make ends meet.
- After an economic downturn, many of these ventures failed and many people had to turn to pillaging to make ends meet.
- The costs hit Angliss hard and he sold his large motor bike collection, vintage Bentley and other assets to try to make ends meet.
- Being a widow with five children to look after, Beatrice struggled to make ends meet on a small war pension and had to work from morning to night as a domestic cleaner to earn money.
- Thus, to make ends meet, farmers in communities such as Cosby and Del Rio began setting aside some of their corn crop for liquor production.
- It centers on a family struggling to make ends meet who relocate to a suburban home.
- Teachers were poorly paid and often boarded with the families of the students they taught to make ends meet.
- Crushed and struggling to support his son, Jesús was forced to take a security job at a local high school to make ends meet.
- Players who would have sought off-season jobs to make ends meet just 20 years earlier were now well-paid professionals at least, and multi-millionaires in many cases.
- Afraid of having to paint "potboilers" to make ends meet, Cassatt applied herself to produce some quality paintings for the next Impressionist exhibition.
- He began teaching English to recent immigrants to make ends meet and continued doing so for many years.
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