Word: churchwomen
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There are farmwives and churchwomen of grit and industry and waitresses who wore their aprons proudly as professionals. Men recall mothers with plenty of spunk who were up at dawn to pack lunches for school or hang wash with clothespins pulled from an apron's bottomless pocket. Grandmas figure prominently. The tales of their ease and intimacy while they sewed together or rolled out dough remind the viewer that sometimes a grandmother with a bosom might be preferable to one with biceps...
...Graduates of the school have assassinated Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, and the Jesuit priests, and the four churchwomen," Linares said...
...sought to halt the discussion with a decree insisting on an all-male priesthood. In 1979, during Pope John Paul's first U.S. visit, Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the organization for leaders of women's orders, publicly informed the Pontiff of "the intense suffering and pain" many churchwomen experience...
...responsible for some of El Salvador's most shameful moments. Apart from the perpetrators of thousands of unsolved Salvadoran slayings, those who may be freed include the three men suspected of killing four U.S. Marines in San Salvador in 1985 and the suspected murderers of four American churchwomen in 1980. Seeking peace for all of Central America, the region's leaders will inevitably leave many of their people feeling betrayed and dissatisfied...
...right-wing death squads. The bill was passed to comply with the Guatemala accord, which calls for the freeing of political prisoners but does not specify who fits that definition. Among those expected to benefit from the amnesty are the right-wing national guardsmen who killed four U.S. churchwomen in 1980, and the leftist guerrillas who gunned down four U.S. Marines in 1985. The amnesty, said Salvadoran Vice President Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, "represents a broad, generous offer within the concept of forgive and forget...