Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...
...survived only a few years, but Ma was made of fiercer things. Having quit her teaching job to take care of the two babies, Joseph and Suzanne, she began to give private lessons in French and to play the piano at a moviehouse named the "Eden." In twelve grim years she saved enough money to buy a government land concession on a plain bordering...
...Ma major upset was scored in the 145 1b. class when Frank Dewar of Dudley won a hard-fought three round decision over unbeaten Norm Wyner of Winthrop. Wyner had knocked out all but one of his previous opponents. Dewar had been runner-up in the division for three consecutive years...
...hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions from heroic phrasing to the coloquial are smooth and consistent for the most part...
...themselves-playing a guitar, tom-toms and an occasional native instrument, he chanting in English and Afrikaans, she piping a shy descant. But in the past year Minstrel Marais has turned popular songsmith. His songs of the veld, such as Sugarbush, Ay-round the Corner and the fast-rising Ma Says, Pa Says, have been recorded by such big-league songbirds as Jo Stafford and Doris...