Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ma'am?" A middled-aged Negro stood, eyes narrowed, waiting...
...Movement. You've heard about the election next month of course. It's an important election and we're concerned that you realize how important it is that you vote in it. Have you a moment you can spare me, a moment for discussion? And don't call me 'ma'am'.--I could be your daughter...
...girls, all or conceivably all of them Episcopalian at some time or another (one needs a revolutionary statistician to set these matters straight), all of them Upper-Middle Class and all of them civilized to that point of Christless High Church rectitude whose communal odor is a cress between Ma Griffe and contraceptive jelly...
...Handful of Oatmeal." First on Rusk's agenda was a private session with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Ma ria Castiella y Maiz. It was also the most urgent meeting of the day, since the Spaniards had threatened not to re new a ten-year agreement, expiring this year, which permits U.S. bases in Spain...
...astonishingly tin ear for dialogue; his autobiographical e frequently reads like a parody of all the memoirs ever written. "We had what is now known as a cookout, with Mrs. Roosevelt, in a bungalow apron toasting the frankfurters over a charcoal grill. When her son Elliott shouted 'Hey, Ma, we're all out of beer!' she replied sharply, 'You know there's always enough beer! Just look around for it!' It was a domestic scene that made one happy to be an American...