Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We took our seats inside the hall. Three older men with short, neat hair sat in front of us. They smiled and eyed the crowd and joked with each other as though it were 1937. A handful of young kids leaned out over the balcony's ornate railing. A woman...
Similar growth-limiting measures have been adopted by other communities, including Boca Raton, Fla., and Ramapo, N. Y., as well as a handful of other California towns. The motive may be healthy-to conserve resources, including simple living and breathing space, that are becoming scarcer all the time. In a...
The first woman network correspondent to cover a national political convention for TV had a double assignment. She was supposed to interview Bess Truman and Frances Dewey and, while she was at it, apply their pancake makeup. Pauline Frederick rose from that humiliating start in 1948 to a distinguished career...
Instead, the J.P.L. scientists proposed taking advantage of a free and virtually inexhaustible source of power: the pressure of sunlight. Moving at 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) a second, the photons from the sun would exert force on the large sail-just as a handful of sand, thrown against...
Instead of helping these women remove the causes of their "boredom and loneliness at home," as Cardozo believes could (and can still) be done, feminists told them to leave home and become absentee mothers, just like their absentee husbands. Says she: "Their only quarrel with the success ethic was that...