Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London office party in the mid-1960s, boy meets girl. David Lovatt, 30, and Harriet Walker, 24, share the same unfashionable dream of settling into married life and having lots of children. David, whose parents divorced when he was seven, wants to create the stable home he lacked while growing up; Harriet, a virgin, hopes to replicate her untroubled childhood. They find a huge Victorian house within commuting distance of London. It costs more than David's salary as an architect can provide, but his wealthy father agrees to take on the mortgage payments...
...Harriet Watt's career in journalism began in 1945, when she became business manager of TIME's Shanghai bureau. She did not last long. Nor did the bureau. As the Communist forces of Mao Zedong swept to power in 1949, Watt's TIME colleagues were evacuated to Hong Kong and she followed. The Communists were not sorry to see her go. Recalls Watt, now 70: "They considered me a running dog of the imperialists...
Born Wong Min-yee, she goes by her given Christian name, Harriet, and her husband's family name, Watt. Upon graduation from St. John's University in Shanghai, she landed a job trading gold bullion on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. After she fled her homeland, she served as business manager in TIME's Hong Kong and Tokyo bureaus. Watt arrived at the magazine's New York City office in 1956, became an American citizen and continued rising through the business-side ranks. By the late 1960s she had consolidated her hold on our spending habits and our hearts...
...former president of the New York Urban League, Harriet Michel, will lead a study group about emerging Black leadership. She said she has constantly acted as a spokesperson for the Black viewpoint, recounting her experiences as an exchange student in Norway during the Civil Rights Movement...
...Harriet Somers, performed brilliantly by Davis, comes closest to being a convincing character. She is generally concerned about her husband, interested and aware of his politics, and is a strong and intelligent woman. But she too is one-dimensional, played for the most part as a tyrannical shrew...