Word: lona
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ross and lona Woodside last week were listening not only to the alarums of Gerald Ford on Indochina, but also to the first whispers of a tardy spring. It was clear that spring was more welcome. It will soon green the patch of Iowa prairie where they have lived and farmed for 64 years, bring the wild flowers to their slope of black soil with a quiet excitement that will dwarf Ford's perplexing insistence on more war in Southeast Asia...
...Coolidge was on his way to Washington when lona froze her heels riding to town in a bobsled. She did not hold it against him. "I liked Coolidge," she says. "He didn't waste money and didn't waste any words...
Yakir practically grew up in Stalinist concentration camps. At the age of 14, he was swept up in the mass arrests of 1937, the year his father, Major General lona Yakir, was executed during Joseph Stalin's purge of the Red Army. Pyotr Yakir was released after 17 years and rehabilitated as part of Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign in 1956. It is rare-and therefore especially ominous-for the Soviet authorities to rearrest a former inmate of a Stalinist labor camp...
This is just what Folklorists lona and Peter Opie have done in Children's Games in Street and Playground, published by the Oxford University Press. For 20 years the husband-and-wife team has been exploring and documenting the cultural patterns that characterize childhood. Their particular flair is an ability to see children's activities from the perspective of the young. Their new book is an expert guided tour of that arcane subsociety in which play is as vital as work is to the adult...