Word: ella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council, it seems, had received a request from a club to fund a visit to Harvard by Ella Grasso, the first female governor of Connecticut. But even the student government of mighty Harvard did not have the resources to bring her to Cambridge...
...former Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso said: "Let us not kill the children of the poor, and then tell them how we have helped them." --Thomas J. Winslow --David S. Graham --Michael D. Nolan --Sophia A. van Wingerden
...previous generation. Says David Jacobsohn, 31, a computer systems analyst in Boston: "I'm not doing as well as my father at this point, but I think in ten years or so I'll be able to." Many people who went into middle-class careers are now bitterly disappointed. Ella Parham, 39, of Boston, earns $31,400 as a third-grade teacher in the city schools but feels she has slipped into the lower class. A single parent, she supports two daughters, ages 16 and 19, and a 3-year-old grandchild. "I surely don't feel like...
Molly the blues singer, that is. The one who recorded an album, Molly Sings, when she was six. Whose favorite vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...black working-class community of Belmont Heights, Gooden explains, "all the adults were your parents," though he was not shortchanged in any respect. Ella Mae and Dan Gooden were as solid as the rocks that--their son acknowledges both uneasily and proudly--he used to hurl at passing cars with resounding accuracy. "I knocked out a lot of windows, got a lot of whippings," Dwight says. "And at night I'd lie in bed throwing a tennis ball up in the air and catching it, throwing it up in the air and catching it, throwing...