Word: distaff
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BRENDA LEE, diminutive in stature, stands head and shoulders above everyone else on the distaff side of the rock picture. Since she recorded Jambalaya as a 12-year-old, she has simply overpowered every song that has come her way. Her big voice is best in the slow numbers like I'm Sorry and Losing You, but her delicately-wielded heavy bass is just as characteristic in the rockers--Dum, Dum, Sweet Nothins, That's All You Gotta Do--in which she employs another trademark, her non-piercing screams...
...journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...
...Rockford fair in Illinois in 1964, Percy, then in the midst of his losing gubernatorial bid, refused to appear with him. The reason for the snub, presumably, was that Percy was afraid of being identified with a man whose recent divorce and remarriage had punctured his appeal to the distaff voter...
While George Romney went a slumming, theWhite House turned a shrewd distaff eye upon the countryside. Accompanied by a Cabinet-rank coterie, the President's wife last week took off on a four-day, seven-state Midwest trek to broach a new Johnsonian quest: Can the U.S. slow the hegira to the cities, haul the hamlets out of hibernation, and reverse the overwhelming demographic thrust of the century...
Little Old Ladies. Distaff Communists cut and stitch uniforms for the Viet Cong in jungle-hidden factories replete with Singer sewing machines. They assemble rifle grenades and Claymore mines and devise booby traps. Carrying double baskets, they act as the Viet Cong's trucks, toting rice and ammunition to the front lines. Once there, they help dig trenches and fortify bunkers, nurse and evacuate the wounded, bury the dead. They operate radios and typewriters, handle the blizzard of paper work required by the meticulous V.C. bureaucracy. Allied troops have recently captured several of the sullen, sloe-eyed Victoria Charlenes...