Word: dishpan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played hard, but just couldn't get any points on the board," New England coach Chuck Fairbanks said. "It was extremely difficult to run and pass the ball. My hands felt like they were in a dishpan too long...
...unfortunate that Ms. has had to become the most well-known, commercialized mouthpiece of the women's movement, for it ignores the lives so many women lead. The only national magazine that reassures women that they have brains ignores the fact that they might also have dishpan hands...
...than a fleshed out case history because she has a strong character. For whatever reason, self-pity and the view that everyone is a victim, are not part of her makeup. Trying to be normal is very hard work. Elizabeth winds up with the philosophical and moral equivalent of dishpan hands. But she is not one to disguise expensively acquired truth under some perfumed, feminizing unguent...
...next admission takes him out of the dishpan and into the fire. For though he can make himself believe that in a pinch he could become a housewife, honesty forces him to add, "But he did not question what he would have to give up forever...
...Aimee turned up in the U.S. with a weeks-old daughter in tow. She floundered around the Pentecostal circuit till a grocery clerk named McPherson proposed. After a fairly short spell of McPherson, she fell deathly ill and suffered a vision in which the Lord summoned her from the dishpan to the pulpit. So she dumped her daughter and small son on the farm in Ontario and ran away to preach. In 1918, preaching took her to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles quickly took her to its stucco heart...