Ferraro

[ fuh-rahr-oh ]

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noun

Geraldine Anne Gerry, 1935–2011, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1978–84; first woman chosen as the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party 1984.

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In a watershed moment, Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to appear on a major party ticket.

The Ferraro film makes no mention of 2008 vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, the first Republican woman on a national ticket.

Ferraro, she says, “was 100 percentbehind me in part because she saw it as unfinished business.”

For him, her presence was not enough to balance out “Geraldine Ferraro, Hillary Clinton [and] Betty Friedan.”

Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs.

Ferraro went through them as carefully as he could in his rattled state, even checking the seals under UV.

It rumbled forward and locked its hand around Ferraro's wrist, handcuff style.

Ferraro still had the baffled act going as he fumbled with the papers, examined the initials and such.

We had a leisurely drive out into the country and reached President Ferraro's house after dark.

Ferraro pulled away from the robot's hand as if it had been a poisonous snake.

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