Word: toga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full of ordinary Christmas greetings, one card is sure to stand out: the Yuletide message sent by Arizona Governor Rose Mofford to celebrate her first year in office. Mailed to friends, journalists and fellow government officials across the country, Mofford's missive is a caricature of herself as a toga-clad Goddess of Liberty perched atop the state capitol dome. In recent years the beehive-coiffed Governor, 66, has sent out similar cards showing herself as Uncle Sam, Santa Claus and even Mae West. If the practice catches on among Governors, next Christmas may bring portraits of George Deukmejian...
...intelligent head of a Talmudic scholar, the visitor decided, an Ethiopian head, a fastidious head, given to complex distinctions. Joseph and the visitor set out in the evening light to walk across the hills to Moses' boma. Joseph wore a handsome red blanket hung over his shoulder like a toga and, oddly, a suede golf cap that suited him well. He was barefoot, his feet tough and thick as they trod upon rocks and twigs and thorns and dung indifferently...
...Loita Hills, there were three Masai warriors, called ilmurran, sitting in the shade beside a dung-walled hut. Their hair was long and greased with fat. They were barefoot and wore only the shuka, a bright- patterned piece of cloth, like a tablecloth, draped as a short toga around waist and shoulders. Their spears leaned against the wall of the hut, with their rungu -- knob-ended clubs that the Masai can throw with a fierce accuracy. One of the warriors, named David, spoke halting English. He was about 20 years old, although the Masai pay little attention to precise ages...
...attempt to capture the symbolism of the quadrennial world Olympics, Mike N. Druckman '87, chairman of Leverett's version, marked the beginning of the games by dressing up in a toga and carrying a bic lighter through the Leverett House dining hall...
...Arthur Toga, 33, St. Louis, assistant research professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine. During a TV interview with the NBC affiliate in St. Louis, Toga recalled that one terrorist showed him a gun. ; Said Toga: "He took out four cartridges and spun the thing, and then put the gun to my belly and pulled the trigger. The gun didn't go off." Twice more, the captor pulled the trigger, Toga said. Toga disclosed that one of the hijackers proposed marriage to Purser Uli Derickson. Said Toga: "That was the only time she lost control...