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...Loraine: Ay Dios mio, Brian Bingham! You bent over and got it on your jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Jersey: Day Care with a Lot of Caring | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...Goal scored by Number 17, Martha Albright.Assisted by Number 12, Wendy Mill-ay andNumber 20, Emily...Dial...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: The Name Game | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...Madam," he said, rolling his r's even though there were none in the word, "I will love you forever. !Ay...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...women standing in a semicircle on a bare stage. But, after the first number, one of the men begins to sing. Imagine a bagpipe full of gravel wailing into a nor'easter, and you have some idea of his doleful song and the others that punctuate the evening. "Ay! Ay! Let your bowels be torn from your body because you don't know how to love," goes one typical lyric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Flamenco, Simple and Smashing | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

From scattered western literature, for example, Cassidy has gleaned the definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blind Tigers and Manniporchia | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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