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Word: mama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maude Coffin Pratt, focal point of Paul Theroux's latest novel, is a septuagenarian who has taken pictures ever since "a friend of Mama's bought me a camera because she thought I wasn't getting enough fresh air." Maude's picture taking became a career; she herself eventually became a legend to the millions who work and play in the form that is a billion-dollar synapse between technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Exposures | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Tricia on the last day. I took three consciously deep breaths to clear the light-leadedness that had struck me. One ... two ... three. I said aloud "Take three deep breaths." Mama, Julie did so. The Hall seemed overcrowded with humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Moments from Nixon's Memoirs | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

Stand on name marker. Reach for Mama's hand. Hold it. Applause. Daddy is speaking. People are letting tears roll down their cheeks. Must not look. Must not think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Moments from Nixon's Memoirs | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Postman Always Rings Twice. At the Central Square, through Saturday at 5:50 and 9:40. With Bloddy Mama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...where you set the kind of Caribbean concoctions that come in gutted coconuts and topless pineapples; that was when, with the help of a little juice, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville music came marimba-ing out of the loudspeakers. This is Florida, man! You may not be no pith helmet, mama honey, but I sho do lak the way you squeeze my tanning butter. Make that a double rum punch, bubbles. Me and my Foster Grants...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: And Texas Hidden Deep In My Heart | 4/8/1978 | See Source »

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