Word: maw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guests at last week's National Day receptions were struck by the difference from previous celebrations. Instead of the Scotch and gin of yesteryear, only Chinese rice wine was served at most places, though a few embassies offered a throat-searing liquor called Maw...
...here, too, one encounters ambivalence. Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) is a group of Roxbury mothers on welfare. A Mrs. Bland, staff worker for MAW, said that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), many of them white college students (described by Carmichael as the "kids who go to Europe one summer and to Alabama the next"), were the ones who got MAW started. "I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world," she said. "We don't care whether you're blue, purple, or brown with yellow polka dots, we want you to work with...
...Shelter. Fed like a pulsating dinner into the maw of investigative machinery, processed by robots in white coats, Spindrift nurses a wholly rational resentment of his conversion into a thing. "I don't think you really believe we're human beings at all," he protests to the young woman wiring his head to an electroencephalograph. "Do you mind?" she says. "I've got my work to do." This is clearly no place for a clear head. With his skull still gleaming from a preoperative shave, Spindrift swipes a wardrobe and steals back into the world...
...Center been in achieving its goals? Perhaps its greatest success has been to teach the workers how to begin organizing; in a sense the past seven months have been largely a training session. But there have been more concrete accomplishments. The surplus food project, for example--now MAW (Mothers for Adequate Welfare)--certainly demonstrated the potential power of organization to women who had probably had no consciousness of the meaning of political participation...
...hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket to check it out. If all goes well, fuel specialists attach the plumbing that will fill the projectile's maw with explosive cargoes of liquid oxygen and kerosene, or intractable liquid hydrogen...