Word: ta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broadcast over a huge video screen to 5,000 guests at tables spread around his house in the Tiger's Den. Hun Sen was doubly happy, he said in his speech, not only because of his daughter's marriage but also because that very day his troops had arrested Ta Mok, the Khmer Rouge leader also known as "the Butcher," the last of the rebel commanders still at large since the death of the fugitive Pol Pot in the jungle last year. But diplomats at the feast were less than pleased. Hun Sen said Ta Mok was to be tried...
...women (assuming that if women in the Hasty Pudding show are men, then men are women)? Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger '00) is a dangerously subversive character, a postmodern repetition of the much-parodied "White House intern" figure. Doused in blush and armed with a lolli (ta)pop, Schlesinger's cotton candy-cum-phallus act is not very sexy, but still a marked improvement over Monica...
STILL DEAD, THOUGH Pol Pot died of an overdose, not a heart attack as Cambodian officials claimed last April, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review. The late dictator swallowed tranquilizers and antimalarial pills upon discovering that a Khmer Rouge comrade, Ta Mok, planned to turn him over to the U.S. for trial. Ta Mok offered to make Pol Pot available in March, the article by journalist Nate Thayer claimed. But U.S. officials declined, saying they needed more time to prepare to arrest...
...student says the nurse told her "it wasn'ta big deal," and did not offer treatment...
...T.T.F.N. ("Ta-ta...