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Word: commenting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three years ago Mme. Ngo began dipping into ancient files and poring over old laws and codes to draw up what was to become a declaration of independence for women. She wrote drafts in Vietnamese. French and English, sent them to legal experts all over the world for comment. Meanwhile, evoking the magic name of Trung, she rallied the women to the cause, soon began having sleepless nights and nightmares about the situations her bill did not cover, would furiously scribble notes in the night for the next day's revision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Dainty Emancipator | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Across the country a score of other call girls willingly spoke their stories into the tape recorders of CBS reporters, and so did the businessmen who hired the girls. Titled The Business of Sex and punctuated by comment from Narrator Ed Murrow. the hour-long report was intended to document a cynical alliance between prostitution and business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Call Girls on Tape | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Nancy Prober '59 Radcliffe Student Council president, reached last night and asked to comment, didn't. She explained that she was "embarrassed." Blaise G. A. Pasztory 1L, a proctor in most New Lecture Hall examinations, was more hopeful: "I am neither embarrassed nor inconvenienced by our little walks." He added that he believed that "this feeling is reciprocated by the girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies Ask 'Separate but Equal' Exam-Time Rest Room Facilities | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

Edith Q. Bratwurst, dean of inter-college activities, could not be reached for comment. She was preparing an address for delivery last night entitled "Radcliffe's Goal: Separate but Equal Facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffies Ask 'Separate but Equal' Exam-Time Rest Room Facilities | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...witnesses Schlesinger calls in, two of those most fascinated by the President were also among the most acute. Said Hugh Johnson: "[He succeeded] not as a master of planning or knowledge, but as a master of dexterity." And Artist Peggy Bacon, in an ironic comment on his look, said: "Clever as hell but so innocent . . . a grand old actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lilac Time in Washington | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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