Word: ma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there been such bustling preparation. The orchestra rehearsed diligently, although the music was all familiar. The chorus chanted in German, French. Italian. Individual singers worked with conductors and stage directors. Pretty young ballerinas went through their paces hour after hour under the determined direction of George Balanchine, new maître de ballet...
...Haru was a farmer's daughter. She said things like "Hai-hai!" and "O-i!" and "Ma-a!" So did everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
Suddenly their adolescent gropings became desperately serious. Shackle's father was cheated out of his summer's work by the church elders, was left with a great store of bricks he could not sell. At the same time Ma Hopper, who thought Shackle was not good enough for her daughter, separated them, and Shackle found his girl back in Pewee's arms. He got an old shotgun and started to town to kill them all. Drunk with grief and fatigue, crying, Shackle stumbled along the road, talking to himself...
...home because she was going blackberrying next morning. When she got home around midnight her little sister, Mary Catherine, warned her: "Your bed covers is in Pappy's room but don't go in there. He's drunk and he's going to run Ma out of the house tomorrow." But Edith went in anyhow. Pappy woke...
Edith fell to the floor and fumbled for a pair of old high-heeled shoes she had given her Ma. She flailed out with one of them. Pappy fell back. Edith, half-naked from the fight, caught up a covering, ran out of the house. She could hear Pappy moaning: "Jesus, Jesus, why can't a man whip his own child?" He was soon dead from the beating Edith gave...