Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of whether a senior WAVE should be called "Sir" as male officers are called, or whether she should be "ma'am" as some have suggested, has likewise been resolved in a simpler manner. If the officer is being addressed by name, it would be "Miss" (or Mrs.) Jones, following the Naval usage of addressing all officers of rank of lieutenant commander and under by that form. If the officer is not being addressed by name, simply use the rank: "Aye, aye, lieutenant," or "Good morning, lieutenant." The usage thus follows the Marine Corps and Army custom...
Last summer high officers preparing the U.S. invasion of North Africa spent days absorbing Smith's records, and the invasion ships carried discs of three or four dialects. Soldiers en route learned phrases useful in military intelligence, such as WASH MIN WAKT TIB-DA SI-NEE-MA (Algerian for "When does the movie begin?"), and in reconnaissance, such as FAYN DAR LO-DOO (Moroccan for "Where is a toilet...
...living room last week, grey-haired Pa John Harrington, 68, worked long hours at a grinder, grinned when the sparks flew, sometimes muttered: "I have more fun than a kid in this place." Buxom Ma Harrington, 58, wearing a house dress tucked into overalls, operated a lathe. Twins Richard and Russell, 34, wangled new orders, worked at machines, swept out the place at night, often were on the job 16 hours out of 24. Mrs. Richard kept books. Mrs. Russell did all the cooking...
...first offer was some tooling that could be done only on a new $4,000 machine. The twins, who had never even seen $4,000, made their own machine-out of a junked lathe, an old washing-machine motor, an oil pump from a 1926 automobile and one of Ma's old washtubs to catch the oil that leaked...
...Warriors. But where tiny Wong has kept charts, the burly chieftains of the famed Ma clan of Moslem warriors have kept their own armies in the Northwest. ("Of ten Moslems, nine are Ma; he who is not a Ma is then surely a Ha.") Most powerful and progressive of the clan is bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another...