Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shoulder, Chris wears a Purple Heart; in his pocket he carries war medals which he flashes in front of any guard who dares challenge his credentials. "I would of brought both my Purple Hearts, but my poor mama wanted to keep one," he explains apologetically...
...Contrary to what you said in your article on the Duvalier dynastic plans, "Enter Mama Doc" [Feb. 22], the first and legal wife of Max Dominique was paid no money whatsoever. On the contrary, she was stripped of her property, deprived of any possibility of earning a living in Haiti, until she had no choice but to leave the island. She left alone. Her two children had been taken from...
Soon afterward, during a three-day rest and recreation at the seaside town of Vung Tau, Calley saw six "mama-sans," Vietnamese women, machine-gunned on their way to market by South Vietnamese police simply because they were on the streets a half-hour before curfew lifted. "It was the first time," Calley said, "that it dawned on me that we weren't playing games, that we weren't supposed to be a bunch of Boy Scouts out there...
Today Taylor's experiences seem frighteningly in tune with the troubles of his age. "Right now," remarks Danny Kootch, who first met James in the late 1950s and now not only plays guitar with Taylor but leads his own group Jo Mama, "if you're not alienated, you're weird. All you have to do is grow your hair long and everybody talks to you. But in those days you felt, 'What's the matter with me that I can't exist in this world?' Either you ended up very neurotic and screwed up, or you got strength from...
...four children appears to have the sort of killer instinct demanded by the job, they reason, it would be his eldest daughter, the plump and hard-driving Marie-Denise (Dédé), 29. Dédé is so strong willed, in fact, that she is sometimes called "Mama...