Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week CBS proudly announced that Procter & Gamble, one of the first and biggest buyers of soap-opera time, had renewed four oldtimers: Ma Perkins, now in its 13th year; Road of Life (ninth year); Life Can Be Beautiful (eighth year); Young Dr. Malone (seventh year...
...wheeled wildly, found his avenue of retreat blocked by a waitress. She patted his head and asked the cashier, "Is this your little boy, ma'am?" Cornelius shrieked, "Cut that out. This is a stickup." He jammed one pistol into the waitress' starched uniform. A second later she was shaking him angrily. One of his guns fell to the floor and broke into four pieces. The police came, took the money away from him, hauled him off as a delinquent. He did not cry. "I made a mistake somewhere," he said, "I saw it all done...
...cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders, maître d'hotel sent down from the Vancouver Hotel...
...embattled apostrophiles seized their pens and rushed to the defense. The Times offered editorially to split the difference, ban the apostrophe in plurals like 1890s "whether our own proofroom is for us or against us." It added a thank-you-ma'am: after bowing for years under questions of solemn import, the world could well use some small controversies...
...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...