Word: helpmeets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend of Harris' for 30 years; both for the third time; in Sterling, Va. When nominated for the third of her four Tony Awards, Harris said to an interviewer: "If I had to do it again, I would like to have met a man and just been his helpmeet and nothing else...
...Jacqueline Kennedy, who redecorated the White House, or Lady Bird Johnson, who promoted a nation al beautification program, Pat never deliberately carved out any special province as First Lady (though she added as many antiques to the White House as Jackie did). She was nonetheless a highly useful political helpmeet to her husband. Her attractive Middle American image, well-groomed but never so conspicuously fashionable to cause envy, could scarcely have been better for a conservative President. She had a talent for small talk and mixing with people that always eluded Nixon. He quickly discovered as well that...
...week Kay Amin, mother of four, was seized in Kampala, allegedly in possession of a submachine gun and ammunition. According to Radio Uganda, a contrite Kay was escorted to Parliament at her own request to apologize to her ex-husband. Amin, according to the radio report, directed his erstwhile helpmeet "never to involve herself in dirty activities nor be deceived or confused by wrong people...
...onerously monotonous plot proceeds through vignettes of Serpico's honesty being put to the test. Alternating with these are interludes of Serpico on the beat, wearing a variety of disguises, and at home, where his girl friend (Barbara Eda-Young) is assigned the traditional role of helpmeet and sounding board for the hero...
First in Wyoming. The 1960s were not the first time in American history that civil rights and feminism were linked. Early American woman was conventionally seen, and conventionally saw herself, as the frontiersman's helpmeet in building the new nation -wife and mother of pioneers. It was the Abolitionist movement before the Civil War that helped get American feminism under way. In working against slavery, women emerged as a political force. The 1848 Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, N.Y., was the first of several to demand the vote, equal opportunity in jobs and education...