Word: mata
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Word spread quickly. Thousands gathered outside the Ballabhdas house. When at last the widow appeared behind her husband's bier, surrounded by a cortege of weeping women, the crowd beat gongs, threw flowers and fried corn kernels, and sent up frenzied shouts of "Sati Mata ki jai" (Hail to the faithful mother-wife). Business in Jaipur came to a standstill; almost a third of the town's population moved out to the cremation grounds...
Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...regional conference of U.S. diplomats in South America, State Department Counselor George Kennan and Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller received greetings in the Stalinist manner from the Communist newspaper Tribuna Popular. With a nice feeling for rank and function, Tribuna called Kennan "an international bandit," Miller "a male Mata Hari...
...finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
...plump and had a sharp nose and receding chin. She was not blonde; her hair was dark brown. But she was-or had been-a spy. There was no doubt about that. And the torrent of her confession was far more shocking than the fact that she was no Mata Hari...