ferraro

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ferraro - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Ferraro \Fer*ra"ro\, prop. n.
     Geraldine Anne Ferraro, a United States politician. Born in
     1935, she was a congresswoman from New York in the United
     States Congress from 1978 to 1984, and ran unsuccessfully in
     1984 a candidate for Vice President of the United States,
     with Walter Mondale as the Presidential candidate. She was
     the first woman to be nominated by a major U. S. political
     party for the office of Vice President.
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