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Word: ma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soda. Get the size you want; don't let yourself be subliminally tricked into getting a larger size and paying more. After a day of training at PACE (Pacific Academy of Courtesy and Excellence), I knew that if a customer asked for a drink, I must immediately say, "Large, Ma'am?" The customer, charmed by the smile and the seemingly unobtrusive suggestion, would succumb...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Cinema Purgatorio | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...running in 1966-67. Unlike Windows 3.1, TSS time slice appropriations were under the control of the system operator, through the supervisor (resident program in core memory). The reason was the same then as now; people exaggerate the priority of their applications. Roy Bercaw Cambridge, MA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howitt Ignores IBM System | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...walker, Joyce Foster of Boston, said, "I'ma churchgoer, but I gave up church today to helpfeed the hungry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hunger Walk Earns $3M | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...favor of a class-action suit brought against him by disabled veterans across the country who have suffered nearly 30 years of mental and physical pain needlessly because of his now-professed "mistakes." George Hitt Milton, MA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara Ought To Donate to Vets | 4/29/1995 | See Source »

...used to bring a Snoopy lunchbox to school. It was light blue and plastic and had a red thermos inside. After a while it broke, and I got a metal Little House on the Prairie lunchbox with pictures of Laura and Mary and Ma and Michael Landon all over it. After I lost that, I brought my lunch to school in a brown paper bag. Then we ran out of food at my house, but I told everyone I had a magic invisible lunch, and they all thought I was the coolest kid in the second grade...

Author: By Judy Budnitz, | Title: Portrait of the Artist | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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