Word: ella
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...party convention, then lost in a contest to be nominated as lieutenant governor, a loss some say was due in part to his absence from the hall. The prize went to William O'Neill, who went on not only to be elected but also to assume the governorship when Ella Grasso died in office...
...know Joe Lieberman through Bill Curry, who sat beside him in the Connecticut state legislature. Curry enlisted Lieberman in his fight against substandard nursing homes, which meant bucking the power of the popular Democratic Governor, Ella Grasso. "Once Joe saw it was the right thing to do, I never had to look over my shoulder to make sure he was still with me," Curry says. He has had only one bone to pick with Lieberman. Soon after Curry lost the '94 Governor's race and joined the Clinton White House, he got a complaining phone call from his mother, feeling...
...Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley 2. Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley 3. Your Cheating Heart - Hank Williams 4. America the Beautiful 5. Amazing Grace 6. Yesterday - Beatles 7. Over the Rainbow 8. If I Fell - Beatles 9. Take Five - Dave Brubeck 10. Any of Ella Fitzgerald's major hits...
...adore having daughters in every respect but one: we have drastically different tastes in toys. When Zoe was born almost 11 years ago, I truly believed I would raise her with no gender bias. So I tried to give my precious daughter, and later her unparalleled sisters Ella and baby Clementine, the kinds of things I enjoyed as a lad--plastic dinosaurs, soldiers, guns that shoot real projectiles, and of course anything that involves a remote control. In other words, the fun stuff...
...give up food and water for certain addictive drugs? My kids made those rats look like teetotalers. This was especially amazing given that the prerelease models I was testing weren't even close to fully functional--only the chat functions worked reliably. Also a shoot-'em-up game, which Ella reported was a big hit with "the popular boys." For some reason, that made me feel good...