Word: mah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jeered at the way bureaucrats, during the regime of his predecessor Shigeru Yoshida, got together with wealthy industrialists "to play mah-jongg and golf and let their work go." He promised lower taxes and more housing. He promised trade with Red China and Russia, and said this would "create conditions which will contribute to world peace." The obliging Russians, not missing a trick, last week offered to start negotiations for normal relations at the place "the Japanese government considers most adequate" (Japan has already designated New York City as its choice...
...comic strip Scarlet O'Neil without attracting much attention. Then, two years ago, into the big-city adventures in the strip ambled Stainless Steel, a Texas sheriff far from home. He had flowing blond hair and the physique of a Michelangelo statue. "In general," drawled Stainless, "heroics is mah business." His business soon proved so successful that the number of papers taking the strip from the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate rose from 126 to 148 (including 39 in foreign countries). This week Stainless Steel was getting ready to perform a most unheroic act: he will take over the strip...
...horror Stainless has a devastating effect on the women who cross his path. "Ah don't scare easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended...
...waist (24 in.), hips (36 in.) and kinetic attributes against the charms of 32 foreign entries and wound up as this year's Miss Universe, with the usual movie contract, a $4,000 convertible and assorted knickknacks. Burbled she: "Ah woke up with all those roses in mah room an' Ah thought for a moment somebody had died...
...visiting Governor Sir Hugh Foot and Lady Foot. Just at 10, the orchestra blared out a march, and Lady Foot entered the room on the arm of a huge, kingly-looking black man resplendent in white tie, tails and full decorations. His Excellency Paul Eugene Magloire (pronounced mah-glwar), President of the Republic of Haiti and host of the evening, stayed on until 2, ceremoniously dancing with each guest in the order of her husband's rank, gravely bowing to Lady Foot's parting curtsy...