Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freely translated, the descriptive word or two in Miriam Makeba's name say: "There is a saying that after dinner, the Xosa kick the dishes...
...since I directed the picture, I felt keen disappointment in that I was unable to discover any mention of the director's name, nor, in fact, could I discover any mention of the direction. I must assume that had you mentioned either, you would have done so in words as praiseful as the others which had gone before...
...year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three children was formally baptized Thelma Catherine, but Will Ryan, mindful of the fact that she was born on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, added the name Patricia. Before the baby was a year old, Kate Ryan persuaded Will to give up mining (her first husband, an engineer, had been killed in a mining accident), and the family moved West, settled on an eleven-acre truck farm (he called it a "ranch") near Artesia, 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles...
After nearly two years, Will Ryan died of silicosis. On the day of his death she decided to drop the name Thelma and styled herself Patricia, in memory of her father. "He always thought I was all Irish anyway," she says...
...bulging fists, Nikita crowed: "I have strong hands, and anyway, I love it!" He went happily down the receiving line, and began to warm up when he reached a group of children from the Soviet embassy, who showered him with flowers. To one little girl he boomed: "Your name is Natasha!" The surprised child stammered, "How did you know?" Laughed Nikita: "Every Russian girl is called Natasha...