Word: papa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...English food, then married her. The child was their daughter, aged 10. The Drummonds had left England late in July, motoring through France in their Hillman station wagon, sometimes staying at hotels, sometimes camping, as the hour or mood caught them. Wrote Elizabeth in her diary on July 29: "Papa is not content. He says it is too cold to camp. Mama and I teamed against him. We won." Because Elizabeth wanted to see a bullfight, on the fatal night, the Drummonds had doubled back towards Digne, where they remembered having seen one advertised, and on the way back camped...
...Hottest and most romantic rumor in California political circles today was that Governor Adlai Stevenson and Margaret Truman may make a trip to the altar-together. Political gossips point out that the Democratic presidential nominee was almost unknown until Margaret's papa, President Truman, lifted him from comparative obscurity and let it be known that he favored Stevenson...
...compulsory) queued up quietly to choose the 100 members of the all-important Second Chamber (Lower House) of Parliament. Public-opinion polls had predicted little change: the Catholics would retain the No. 1 spot, the Socialists would, as usual, be close behind. But when the returns were in, Papa Drees had pulled a Harry Truman-though unlike Truman, he was as surprised as anyone else...
Last week Coppi wound up another comeback try in the Giro d'ltalia, a tough, 2,500-mile course, whose 20 laps, raced in 20 days, run over the steep, curling roads of the Alps and Apennines. On the lap from Rome to Rocca di Papa, all uphill, Coppi, his legs pumping like pistons, spurted from eighth to second place. From then on, Coppi's fervent fans hysterically paved his way with flowers, sloshed buckets of water on their sweating idol, painted slogans along the route ("Fausto, you are the only king left...
...showed the same distrust for the nation's two historic parties as they did four years ago when Galo Plaza swept into office as a coalition candidate. They put their faith in Velasco's spellbinding personal appeal; humble people flocked to him. Explained a market woman: "Taita [Papa] Velasco understands the poor because he is poor." Velasco owns little property, lives austerely. He describes his policy as "neo-liberalism," which he fancies as a kind of "third position" between the "extremes" of capitalism and Communism...