Word: ella
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WHEN CONNECTICUT'S then-secretary of state first ran for governor in 1974, her bumper stickers said only, "Ella"; no further identification was needed. Ella Grasso always enjoyed a comfortable friendship with the people of Connecticut. From her roots in the state's unique reform "machine," she learned a healthy respect for citizens' wishes and a pugnacious dedication to getting things done. When she became the nation's first woman governor elected in her own right, she proclaimed, with characteristic honesty, the victory first and foremost for the working people of the state and, in her six years...
HARTFORD, Conn.--Former Gov. Ella Grasso (D-Conn.) died last night at Hartford Hospital of complications resulting from cancer...
...bank is not all that John Gabriel has destroyed. He jilted the only woman he loved, Gunhild's twin sister Ella Rentheim (Irene Worth) in order to climb the ladder of success. Dying of an unnamed malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...
RESIGNED. Ella Grasso, 61, popular, twice-elected Democratic Governor of Connecticut whose victory in 1974 made her the first woman to govern a state without succeeding her husband; by reason of "physical disability" resulting from cancer of the liver; in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of immigrants from Italy's Piedmont region, she rose through the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill...
...Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, who was in a Hartford hospital undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the liver...