Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ma Ssu-tsung was a venerated musician in China and the composer of some 24 works for the violin, piano and orchestra, including a propagandistic Longing for Home that became the signature tune for the regular Red broadcasts beamed at Taiwan. He was at peace with the Red regime until last June, when he and some 500 other cultural leaders were caught in the net of "thought reform," as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chinese army officers forced Ma and his colleagues to clean toilets and break stones in the morning, study the thoughts of Mao Tse-tung...
...foremost musicians describe the treatment meted out to him by Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. What made the description more remarkable was that it was made on American soil, in Manhattan, by one of the few escapees from Red China to reach the U.S. He is Ma Ssu-tsung, 54, the president of Red China's Central Academy of Music, the vice president of the Union of Chinese Musicians and a deputy to the National People's Congress...
...resemblance between Larry Mahan, 23, and the bowlegged characters who worked the oldtime rodeo circuit is purely coincidental. Mahan does not even know how to roll his own cigarettes. In fact, he does not smoke, or drink hard liquor. He shaves every morning, says "Sir" and "Ma'am," and occasionally wears a suit and a tie. He owns land in Oregon and a power sweeping company in San Diego; he is a partner in businesses in Arizona and Texas. Larry could be anything but a cowboy-until he climbs on the back of a bucking stallion...
...when it was over and the table cleared, he began signaling indignantly to the waiter to demand: "When are we going to get our lunch?" He had only a minimal interest in food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired, and the agonized ma...
...other two: Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, both inaugurated...