Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zealand's 2,590,000 inhabitants. Cradled in the arms of a welfare state, they have practically no unemployment, easily buy houses on government loans and are cared for with "womb-to-tomb" government benefits. The Maori word apopo, the equivalent of Latin America's mañana, symbolizes the New Zealander's belief that much, and perhaps all, can best be left till tomorrow...
These scenes were enacted with grim realism last week in the fictional land of Lancelot-actually a segment of the Southern California coast at the Ma rine Corps' Camp Pendleton. It was all part of Silver Lance, the most massive and elaborate war game staged by the U.S. armed forces in the two decades since World...
...time, Truffaut was the sternest critic on Cahíers du Cinéma, the trumpet and bible of the New Wave, and he introduced Moreau to the company of serious filmmakers and intellectuals that has been her real world ever since. "I found myself among people I understood better," she recalls, "people I wanted to know, people I admired. The cinema began to mean something to me beyond simply being an actress." Moreau went back to work with a passion, and in two years she made four films, among them three of her best: Les Liaísons Dangereuses...
...back to her office, the secretary, being a kindly person, gave me a cookie and helped me to my feet. "Gee whiz, ma'am," I said, somewhat bewildered, "doesn't each professor have a phone in his own office...
...President, for physical or mental reasons, was unable to declare his own disability, the Vice President, with the written concurrence of a ma jority of the Cabinet, could assume the powers and duties-but not the office -of the President. If the President disputed this action, the decision would be up to Congress. To serve as Acting President in that case, the Vice President would need an affirmative vote from two-thirds of the members of both the Senate and House. Otherwise, the President would remain in power...