Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This song, Rendezvous, is for fickle Maria who made a desperate lover wait two hours the other night . . ." "This samba is for redhaired, snub-nosed Sabina, who lives by the watermill . . ." "This record is for cross-eyed Albert so that, listening, he will have to stop his evil gossiping for at least four minutes...
Acceptance of Maria de Voross from Hungary as the Radcliffe displaced student for next year was announced last night at a "sacrifice dinner" by the Radcliffe Dean's Office...
...line of car lights signaled the coming of the police. There were 40 cars in all, including 24 radio-equipped squad cars and a bus-sized Black Maria loaded with 40 policemen and supplies of tear gas, submachine guns, automatics and carbines...
...Inspector-General Norbert L'Abbé, commanding the police, issued orders to round them up. A squad of 100 police entered the church, in the basement found seven young strikers who started defending themselves with homemade clubs. They were overpowered and led, bleeding and beaten, to the Black Maria. All night long, more & more strikers, picked up in their homes and on the streets, were loaded into the patrol wagon and taken to jail...
Dickens' first love, hardhearted Maria Beadnell, trampled all over him before she brusquely showed him the door. Three years later, Dickens married Kate Hogarth, whom he completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered...