Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Which would make her the nation's third woman governor. The first two: Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, governor of Wyoming (1925-27), now director of the U.S. Mint; Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, governor of Texas...
...Best." Craig drives his men unflaggingly. They grumble about it, but they worship Craig. At Pendleton's Navy relief carnival last month, when Craig had already been ordered to sail for Korea with his combat team, a Marine corporal approached Mrs. Craig and said: "Excuse me, ma'am, but I'd like to talk to you, if you don't mind." As Mrs. Craig continues the story, "The man said he was a little drunk, and he was, but he wanted to say that he had been posted away from the brigade to another outfit. Then...
...such visits, Williams often had to syringe the sinuses of his charges, inoculate them against anthrax, and doctor them generally. He once spent three weeks treating an elephant called Ma Kyaw ("Miss Smooth") for some tiger-claw gouges on her back. Two months later, Williams was having tea outside his tent when Ma Kyaw passed by. Hearing his voice, she turned around, came up to his camp table, sat down, and "leant right over towards me so as to show me her back." That afternoon at the inspection, Williams found out why: one of Ma Kyaw's wounds still...
...fact was that for UNESCO, mañana still meant the day after tomorrow...
...ever tended the flames more assiduously or mistreated nature with more zestful enthusiasm than the little barrel of a man with the wonderful name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what...