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  • Brazilians eat lentil and rice or lentil soup; while Germans eat split pea soup with sausage or lentils with sausage; Japanese eat sweet black beans called kuro-mame.

    Black-Eyed Pea Soup : The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz 2010

  • When they can mame an kill on an Military Base, Now this administration is asking for more blood shed.

    Holder defends decision to try alleged 9/11 terrorists in New York 2009

  • Would that not hurt, kill, or mame someone, thus resulting in the definition of VIOLENCE????

    Think Progress » Vandals hit at least five Dem offices nationwide, threaten to ‘assassinate’ children of pro-reform lawmakers. 2010

  • The bushers should realize that until presidents & congressmen are willing to send their own children to die, kill, mame, be mamed, and go through mental torture, rash decisions will be made.

    Axelrod slams Romney 2009

  • Some might say honest as well. on March 9, 2008 at 12: 45 pm | Reply V. G.BRADIN what, in the mame of god, was said to these Service people to cause such up heaval in the ranks?

    Humbug « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Someone who set bombs to kill, mame, damage innocents – lecturing us on “the furnace of war.”

    Theater of the Grotesque 2008

  • Called di mame, the Mother, by colleagues and by her audience, Esther Rachel was a person for whom, as her daughter Ida writes, “being a mother was not only a question of sentiments, but of all her behaviour and of her way of being.”

    Esther Rachel Kaminska. 2009

  • Although the literary press reported several times that she was about to publish a new book (like Khelemyade by Inzl publishing house or In tate-mame-land), none of them managed to appear before the outbreak of the war.

    Miryam Ulinover. 2009

  • Warsaw: 1909; A mame (A mother), Warsaw: 1911; Tekhter (Daughters).

    Rokhl Faygnberg (Imri). 2009

  • She was renowned for her performances in the melodramatic tragedies of Jacob Gordin (1853 – 1909) and was the perfect embodiment of Mirele Efros, the yidishe mame par excellence, which became a favourite part of hers and later of her daughter Ida.

    Esther Rachel Kaminska. 2009

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