Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long century since Raynaud's disease was described by the French physician for whom it is named, the medical profession has learned little about either its cause or any possible cure. Its symptoms remain naggingly familiar. The victim is usually a ma ture woman, who first notices the trou ble in her 20s. The slightest chill can slow her peripheral circulation until her hands, feet, the tip of her nose and the edges of her ears turn blue and ache excruciatingly from oxygen shortage...
...superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers under General Thao Ma; they bombed Vientiane and then fled with half the nation's air force-eleven American-built T-28 fighter-bombers-to Thailand...
Leader of the coup attempt was Brigadier General Thao Ma, the volatile young (32) commander of the Laotian air force. Although he washed out of a French air force pilots' school and flunked his international-transport pilot's test, Ma has logged something like 4,000 hours in the Laotian air force, most of them by leading daily bomb runs against Communist troops moving toward South Viet Nam along the Ho Chi Minh trail. For all his blustering threats, however, Ma's objectives were limited. Royalist generals, who resented his refusal to let them use his transport...
...revolt failed. Premier Souvanna Phouma, a neutralist who might have shared Ma's views, was out of the country. The three prestigious prisoners escaped. And, on the instructions of American Ambassador William Sullivan, U.S. officers from the nearby Udorn airbase in Thailand saw to it that Ma's planes did not leave their base at Savannakhet for the threatened second strike. After a hasty conference with a government representative who flew to Savannakhet, Ma and eleven of his pilots fled across the border to exile in Thailand...
...asked the New York State Supreme Court to adjourn the case temporarily. The Commission's lawyer said that it was completing an investigation that could have consider able bearing on the case. Court hear ings resume this week, and the SEC plans to return with what it calls "ma terial facts" concerning shareholder charges of improper activities by Wolfson and other officers...