This came after an apparently unrelated scandal two months ago over the sale of tickets for prized seats at the foot of the sport's raised dirt ring to around 50 members of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest crime syndicate.
Nix was born and raised "dirt poor" — without indoor plumbing — in Mississippi, and she dropped out of school in the ninth grade to help her mother support her younger brother and sister.
His breakthrough cinematic roles – Guardians, Jurassic World and playing a Navy Seal in Zero Dark Thirty – all share a resourcefulness that came naturally to a boy raised "dirt poor" in the Washington State town of Lake Stevens (population: 30,000).
This raised dirt road was supposed to stretch to the Bolivian border but two-thirds of the intended route has been left incomplete for lack of funds.
There was something about the way she said it that made me believe she'd been raised dirt-poor.
You'll avoid a lot of scrubbing work by just having your feet provide the friction necessary to raise the dirt off the shoe.
We pieced together from their conversation that they had been invited to train some Ivorian commandos in sharpshooting at the military range, and that the Ivorians had closed their eyes as they shot, their bullets raising puffs of dirt from the turf.
The film is based on the true story of Alvin York, a hell-raising dirt farmer from Tennessee who repented and became a devout Christian.
A furious spray of pellets raised an orangey dirt cloud.
An only child raised on a dirt farm in South Africa, near Benoni, she had been a ballet dancer and teenage model before signing to her first manager after he overheard her loudly rowing with a stubborn bank-teller in Los Angeles.
Thanks to special-effects man John Stears, Thunderballs pre-title teaser, the Aston Martin DB5 (introduced in Goldfinger), reappears armed with rear-firing water cannon, seeming noticeably weathered – just dust and dirt, raised moments earlier by Bond's landing with the Bell Rocket Belt (developed by Bell Aircraft Corporation).
