Word: ma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Hu had to abandon Yenan to save his northern flank. Then he raced westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
That night there was a council of war in the Arcaro home. Ma was willing to let Eddie give horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence...
Another time, his ma said to him: "Gee whiz, Eddie, I could use a few dollars. Why don't you tell me how these races are coming out?" Said he: "If jockeys knew how races were coming out, Mom, they'd all be millionaires...
...another part of Paris, a countess with a centuries-old name expressed it differently. She lay back in a deep armchair and waved a delicate hand in a vague, tired gesture: "Whether I am better off? Ma pauvre amie! A year ago I still had my servants-I can't afford them today. I go to market myself, line up in the queue and join the discussion of the housewives about carrots. There were times in my life when I didn't even know what carrots were...
...wrote, more than 300 years ago, a Lancashire merchant named Gerard Ma-lynes, faithful servant to Elizabeth of England and one of Britain's earliest economic writers. Two centuries after Ma-lynes this became the bright gospel of "Free Trade," which seemed to promise to all men the freedom of the ocean, the tolerance of the high road and the fraternity of the market place. Of late decades, the promise has dimmed. Last week ended, somewhat dismally, a revival meeting of the once stirring gospel...