Word: ida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social Security check No.1 for $22.54 went in January to Ida Fuller of Brattleboro Vt. who had paid a total or $22 in Social Security taxes. Fuller drew her last monthly check for $112.60 in December 1974 shorty after her 100th birthday. By then she had collected $20,944.42 in return for her $22. *Secretary of the treasury Donald Regan, Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, and secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker
...past year, the Soviets have singled him out for punishment by slow starvation. After a closely monitored two-hour meeting with Shcharansky in early January his mother, Ida Milgrom, reported: "He looked so pale and so thin. For one year he has been starving. If he remains in this present situation he won't survive...
...family, for instance, one learns that his mother was a delicate child, "spoiled by her gaunt mother, who would secretly give her the giblets on the rare occasions when there was a chicken." Further on, the poultry perspective continues, as one finds Odets's mother "still confiding to Ida Mae her longing for her dead mother (who had saved bits of chicken...
...growth," and in his early years he had quite a case himself. Said he: "I stood many an evening on a soapbox, preaching 'Socialism, the Hope of the World.' " In 1912, while teaching at the anarchist Ferrer Modern School in New York City, he met dark-eyed Ida Kaufman, a precocious 14-year-old pupil so "sprightly" he called her Puck and later Ariel. She pursued her 27-year-old instructor relentlessly, until he "fell in love with her and kidnaped her and married her." The bride, who carried roller skates to the altar, became his lifelong collaborator...
...displacement of Japanese Americans in 1942 was not entirely without benefit. The Federal Government allowed Nisei to work in rural mid-America, far from the strategic areas. As a result, in 1943 the school board of St. Edward, Neb. (pop. 720), hired Peter Ida to teach in its high school. Ida was a gifted man who had a positive and lasting influence on me and my 27 classmates...