Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself as the meanest man in town-as "the Abominable Showman," a bold, bad Broadway producer with a rubber leer, a big black Groucho Marx mustache and a tongue that can tirelessly slice baloney and burble ballyhoo about such Merrick productions as Look Back in Anger, La Plume de Ma Tante, Gypsy and Luther. To publicize his shows, Merrick with truly hippopotamic cheek has sent sandwich-board men into the streets of Manhattan encased in portable placarded pissoirs; persuaded President Johnson to accept the title tune of Hello, Dolly! (a Merrick show) as his campaign song; and conducted a hilarious...
American politics has not witnessed such cozy conjugality since Texas' Ma and Pa Ferguson played ring-around-a-rosy with the Governor's mansion in Austin after Pa was impeached for peculation in 1917. Since the Alabama constitution forbids a Governor to succeed himself, George's support for Lurleen is based on the communal-property concept of public office. In his intended role as a kind of local Lord Bird, Wallace hopes to build support for another third-party presidential bid as states' rights candidate...
...IRAN Volunteers in secondary schools will work with Iranian counterparts to raise the level of English language instructions. Those with MA's in English will work in colleges and universities training English teachers...
...Bell System has the most stockholders (2.8 million), the most shares of stock outstanding (530 million), and the highest total stock value ($31 billion) of any firm listed on any exchange. So many of those shares are owned by widows and elderly couples that the FCC attack on "Ma Bell" has stirred up the same sort of popular resentment as an assault on motherhood itself. "I have stacks and stacks of letters from people asking, 'Why are you trying to get A.T. & T.?'" said a top FCC official last week. Congressional mail was running the same...
...least two years, after the Bell System submits its first written briefs in April. One reason: 66 public bodies and private corporations, from Aeronautical Radio Inc. to Xerox, have asked to be heard. In the end, the outcome could well be resolved as much by stamina as strategy-and Ma Bell has proved quite resilient over the years. The last time the FCC took her on for a big fight was in 1934. Those hearings stretched on so interminably that most of the issues were either settled by negotiation or simply forgotten...