Rainy-day

Rainy-day funds are depleted, pension-fund contributions are already at record lows, and almost all of the major federal government subsidy programs will run out in June 2011.

State Bailouts? They've Already Begun Meredith Whitney 2010

Rainy-day funds, which can help bail out governments during recessions, have also run into political opposition or proven too small to save state budgets.

The Price of Taxing the Rich Robert Frank 2011

Visions of the Rainy-day Rapist and the Southside Strangler kept popping into her head, making her look over her shoulder as she tried to get the damn car started one more time.

Jinx High Lackey, Mercedes 1994

On Saturdays he would ride over to Uplands, and discuss his schemes for the uplifting of the negroes with the Governor and Mrs. Ambler; and once he even went so far as to knock at Rainy-day Jones's door and hand him a pamphlet entitled "The Duties of the Slaveholder."

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

The Major doubtless would have fulfilled his oath as surely as his twelve peers would have shaken his hand afterwards; but, by the time they came up with Rainy-day a mile ahead, his wrath had settled and he had decided that

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

It was Betty who had tramped three miles through the snow last Christmas to carry her gifts to the free negro Levi, who was "laid up" and could not come to claim his share; and it was Betty who had asked as a present for herself the lame boy Micah, that belonged to old Rainy-day Jones.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

In the midst of his own despair, of the haunting memories of that bland period which was over for his race, there arose suddenly the figure of the slave the Major had rescued, in Dan's boyhood, from the power of old Rainy-day Jones.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

Old Rainy-day, who was the biggest bully in the county, set the dogs on him, and lit his pipe with the pamphlet; but the Major, when he heard the story, laughed, and called the young man "a second David."

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

With which the Major and old Rainy-day rode on in opposite ways.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

He looked as old Rainy-day did when he hit the free negro Levi, and I knocked him down.

The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909