Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest you to know that the two stories on Israel in your Oct. 20 issue were mentioned in Ma'ariv, the leading afternoon paper in Israel. Here is the translation from Hebrew...
...final figures mounted in the East, Ike was leading by 52% in Massachusetts, took the lead for the first time in Pennsyl vania. Despite Stevenson's whopping ma jority of 162,000 in Philadelphia, Ike came back as the outstate counties re ported. One example of the Eisenhower surge : the hard-coal district of Lackawanna County (Scranton), which gave Harry Truman a plurality of 18,200 gave Ste venson an edge of only...
...votes ahead in St. Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...
Test of Success. As the boys grew, they were sent to work after school as a matter of course, and Ma herself often helped piece out the family finances. Once she bought a whole carload of apples and made $100 profit selling, them to the neighbors. "Your Ma," muttered Pa almost fearfully, "is acting like a crazy woman." Pa, a man of set ideas and enormous faith in his own mind, sometimes thought his children were going off their trolleys, too. But in the end, even Pa had to admit that the Loves-not, of course, excluding himself-had done...
...title comes from a remark of Ma's, the happy day she watched her eldest graduate from high school. Later, on their 50th wedding anniversary, Pa went back to the idea in a little family speech, and added a thought of his own. "I always did the best for my kids," he said. "I put them all through high school and"-he cried triumphantly-"not one of them have ever been arrested...