Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first to walk in Ward 108 was Private First Class Harry Sanders, 24, who was hurt at Saint-LÔ last summer when a bomb exploded 5 ft. behind him. Almost completely paralyzed from the waist down, blue-eyed Private Sanders went home to Marysville, Pa. on furlough last month, hopped proudly around the house on his braces, laid plans to return to civilian life as a radio mechanic...
Long Remember. In Harrisburg, Pa., the State Legislature entertained a resolution to give back to the South all Confederate flags captured during the Civil War. In Washington, the U.S. Senate voted that regiments dating back to the Civil War might carry in battle the Confederate stars & bars as well as the U.S. stars & stripes...
Mush! In Baltimore, a Snow Shoe (Pa.) boy married a Drifting (Pa.) girl...
...more, while the new son, Frederick, asked himself: Was not this holy continence "merely the end result of a system of covetousness?" In time such doubts were to spread through the Rappite harmony - but not for many years. Meantime Rapp had taken his flock to greener pastures in Economy, Pa. In May, 1824, Harmony, Indiana, was sold lock, stock & angel's footprint to a dreamy Welshman, Robert Owen, who believed in happiness, love and government without punishment...
...killed the winner, Pheidippides.* But skinny, bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...