Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a few due compliments, she yielded the floor to Terry Sanford, a lanky grey-haired Democrat from North Carolina Sanford posed stiffly at the podium. Pushing honesty from his rail splitting brows to his log cabin tweeds. "I would like to quote from Abigail Adams. Do not put unlimited power in the hands of the husbands or we will be prompted to foment revolution. Well I hope that ERA passes. I'm not just offering you empty promises because throughout my political life what I've promised I've always kept. I would like to include in the Democratic...
Most of the women who did go on went to graduate school--Harvard Law had just opened to women, but the Business School was still closed to them--and got education degrees. "One became a teacher; it was very Victorian," Laskin says. Abigail Caplan Beutler, for example, who was the class bridge, marrying on graduation day, had majored in physics, but got a masters from Boston University's School of Education with the idea of getting a teaching job so her husband could go on for his doctorate. It was only later, in 1960, that she went back to school...
...Abigail Quigley McCarthy, Litt.D. For her efforts in the cause of women's rights while voluntarily accepting for herself a "life defined by others-by wifehood and motherhood...
...pleasingly weighty, rounded horizontal density with elegantly elongated spaces inside o's and n's, for example, which enhance the vertical dimensions of the panels themselves. Fine, script like serifs further create a sense of grace suitable to discussions from sources as diverse and far apart in time as Abigail Adams's 1776 letters to her husband, and statistics from a Scientific American article on housework...
About 40 people applied for CFIA grants this year, compared to approximately 05 last year. Ross Terrill, associate professor of Government and the CFIA'a advisor for student programs said. Applications to the Center for European Studies have not climbed this year, according to the Center's administrator Abigail Collins but $4300 less than last year's $20,000 will be awarded to applicants. But Collins said that applicants now asks for more money than they once did, because of the rising cost of spending a summer in Europe. "We're faced by smaller pots and by people asing...