Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime wonder of Red China was outspoken Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. Where others feared to tread, he plunged in and got away with it. Last month, when party leaders complained about his attack on the official doctrine that an ever-increasing population is essential to China's strength, Ma Yinchu roared: "Even though I am nearly 80 years old, and know that an individual cannot resist the multitude, I am ready to go to battle with bare hands and perish rather than yield...
Last week Peking's lone critic was silenced. Buried in a long Radio Peking broadcast was a brief item: Ma had "resigned" from his job as president of China's biggest university...
...occupied by the owner and dwellings in developments of less than ten units, but its scope went beyond New York City's Fair Housing Practices Law.* The bill passed the assembly by a thumping 131-17 vote, but Mahoney shelved it in the Senate. Angry, Rockefeller said the ma neuver did not "represent the feelings and beliefs of the great majority of the people of this state," hit back at Mahoney by refusing to go along on a bill creating 13 New York City supreme-court judgeships ($34,500 a year for 14-year terms), one earmarked...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...
...spectacular that Elvis recently made with Crooner Frank Sinatra for a trifling $125,000. He could expect more petty cash from Stuck on You and its memorable lyrics. Sample: Ah'm gonna stick like glue-stick because Ah'm stuck on you, Ah'm gonna run ma fingers through yer long black hair-An' squeeze you tighter than a grizzly bear...