Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caroline Cunningham's sister Eleanor, the number four player, put Harvard back in front 2-1 shortly after Stone's loss by squashing Sarah Lincoln...
...year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years." Now that he doesn't have Nixon around any more, he is concentrating on President Carter. Jimmy, he finds, "looks a little like both Jack Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Declared Eleanor Smeal of Pittsburgh, housewife and president of the 65,000-member National Organization for Women: "Houston was a rite of passage." Ruth Clusen of Green Bay. Wis., president of the League of Women Voters, struck the same theme: "Even for women who are outside organizational life, who don't see themselves as part of the women's movement, something has happened intheir lives as a result of this meeting, whether they realize...
Even when debate was permitted, opponents of the resolutions often had a hard time getting heard. They had to line up behind one of eight mikes on the floor, and no matter how fast they moved, pro-plan delegates often managed to get there ahead of them. Eleanor Lampe, an Iowa cattle rancher, never could get to the mike to talk about the abortion plank. "I grew up in a rural area," she said, "and I've never seen anything like this. I guess you just have to zoom out like a bulldog and leave no room for kindness...
Interspersed between Edwards' adventures lie general comments about the role of women in politics. Women, she finds, are more honest than their male counterparts who in general enter politics for money and status rather than to fight for causes. Edwards, hardly a modest sort, quotes Eleanor Roosevelt quoting her in the former First Lady's Ladies of Courage: "If I didn't have the crusading spirit I'd get the hell out and go home...