Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weld the Dutch resistance forces into an effective unit during World War II. He liked the gay life and fast cars; his Queen was motherly, deeply religious and serious. In 1947 the couple faced a domestic tragedy in the birth of their fourth daughter, Princess Maria Christina (nicknamed Ma-rijke). As a result of German measles suffered by her mother during pregnancy, the little princess was born with cataracts on both eyes. Doctors were able to save some of the vision in one eye, but by the time Marijke was, two, the sight of the other was gone. In desperation...
...radio as a ham operator. After a three-year stint in the Army, he passed up the family brewery to take a whirl at being a disk jockey. He lasted only a short while after advising a woman who had written in to complain about his record selections: "Ma'am, on your radio you will find a switch which will easily turn the set off." In 1949, after working for another station as a salesman, Storz heard that Omaha's pioneer KOHW was on the block for $75,000. With his father he formed the Mid-Continent...
Career by Council. Before reporting for training, Lausche went home to Cleveland. Ma Lausche thereupon called a family council to discuss his future. In the midst of his family, Frank was persuaded to give up professional baseball and study law instead (his brother William, an accomplished pianist and composer, was talked out of a musical career and into dentistry at a similar family meeting). It was an important decision for Frank Lausche and, as it turned out, a wise one. Without any previous college training, he began to study law at night, clerking in a Cleveland law firm during...
...After seven years of courtship and engagement, they were married by an Episcopal minister because Jane, a "stubborn Methodist" by her own description, refused to be married in the rites of the Catholic Church. Although Frank was automatically barred by his marriage from receiving the sacraments of his church, Ma Lausche, a devout Catholic, proudly welcomed her daughter-in-law into the family with a bouquet of six dozen American Beauty roses...
...Chicago, Researcher A. C. Nielsen's list of the Top Ten radio shows contained not a single nighttime program. Radio's decline was further emphasized by the fact that the three top shows were all daytime soap operas: Young Dr. Malone, Guiding Light and Ma Perkins...