Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton waited six months before accepting the military's invitation while staff members debated whether they would be making nuclear war more feasible by participating, said James Kerrigan, the hospital's chief of staff...
...Radcliffe finalists are: Lowell's Janet W. Rich '84 and Christa L. Kuljian '84. Leverett's Vanessa A. Davila '84, Kirkland's Rosemarie Sabatino '84, North's Elizabeth A. Heneghan '84, Stacey Lewis '84 of Currier, Carla Ann Harris '84 of Quincy and Joan E. Gould '84 of Eliot...
WHAT MAKES such dryness a sign of hope is not just the implication that promoting a woman to a new position is commonplace--though in the city of Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher, the matter-seems far less debatable than elsewhere. Rather, it neatly avoids the undertones that unavoidably creep into more extensive coverage. The wild enthusiasm over Sally Ride's flight wasn't sexist; but the most scrupulous editor couldn't avoid addressing the question of whether it was more difficult, somehow, for a woman to orbit the Earth; whether the milestone was womanhood's for evolving to that...
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, comes down through history books with a vague him of some physical distinction; like an Amazon of old, she transcended generally accepted assumptions about female weakness. A different level of respect is reserved for, say, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female American doctor, whose triumph lay in disproving social assumptions rather than simply surpassing them. Nor is it socially acceptable nowadays to praise Margaret Thatcher for capabilities beyond those of the ordinary woman...
Harvard took the first four matches in straight sets. Top-seeded Harvard player, junior Elizabeth Evans, won the first nine games of her match before dropping a game to Lesley Sheehan of the Terriers, who had beaten Evans in three of their four previous encounters. Evans rallied back behind a powerful serve and commanding forehand to take the next three games and the match...