Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Druids, Greek and Roman antiquity and the American Indian religions. But the groups share some tenets. Most believe in reincarnation" and in a universe ruled by a supreme godhead comprising two parts: a male half, which includes the sun, and a female half, which includes the moon. The distaff side is frequently considered to have more status, which makes neopaganism especially attractive to some feminists...
ENGAGED. Marie Osmond, 19, distaff half of ABC-TV's toothily wholesome Donny and Marie duo; and Jeff Crayton, 23, a college student and actor; in Orem, Utah...
Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri...
...admitted women in early 1976, only one woman has resigned-from the Air Force Academy-because she was expecting a baby. Two men quit the Naval Academy this year to marry their pregnant fiancees-who were not midshipmen. (The Navy has yet to adopt the term midshipwoman for the distaff side...
...Radcliffe cross-country team surpassed the varsity's performance at Franklin Park yesterday, in the first women's Big Three meet. The distaff harriers entered five runners in the meet, and they finished one-two-three-four-five, blitzing Princeton and Yale...