Word: papas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flags were at half staff in San Francisco, and on one, a riot of colors replaced the traditional red, white and blue. It was the first tie-dyed flag to fly in front of city hall. The Bay Area was mourning the loss of its Papa Bear. Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, had died Wednesday morning at 53, reportedly of heart failure, after three decades of tunes and trips...
...mouth to get him in trouble--for instance, Saddam Hussein appearing on Iraqi TV before the Gulf War, sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander of the psy-ops group: "The truth is our best weapon...
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Today, Bragg is a round-faced young man with aconstant flow of talk and the low-slung pants of ahip-hop fan. Friends call him Big Papa, both for arap artist he likes and because "he's got thislittle chubby going on," one says...
...character dolls of the Concord girls, period clothing from Lanz, antique-style jewelry at J.C. Penney and baskets of scented products from Crabtree & Evelyn. The Alcotts would be in awe of every item. They had few possessions, and their diet consisted mostly of the "aspiring" vegetables -- grown aboveground -- that papa Bronson approved...