Word: journeywoman
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...began her freshman year at the notoriously troubled Denver West High School. Off to college at the precocious age of 16, she studied molecular biology for five semesters at the University of Colorado, Boulder before taking time off to do research. She spent the next several years as a journeywoman scientist, first in Colorado, then Buffalo, then the Research Triangle in North Carolina, and back to Buffalo again. At one point, she took a second job as a jazz lounge hostess to pay the bills. She joined the Kirchhausen Lab at Harvard Medical School in 2002 and began night classes...
...Martina match. The woman who once won 54 straight matches, lost one, then won 74 more, now keeps losing to players who have no business beating her. Last week in the warmup at Eastbourne it was Meredith McGrath of Michigan. Each defeat makes her less fearsome to the next journeywoman, often young enough to be her daughter...
...appeared in 15 Wimbledons, always to crumple under the pressure of carrying her nation's hopes. This time, Wade, now 31, fought her way into the finals against Holland's solid Betty Stove, 32, who at 6 ft. 1 in., 160 lbs. is the strong -and slow-journeywoman of the circuit. In the first set of their face-off the Wade Wimbledon Choke appeared ready to repeat itself as the Englishwoman, playing tentatively, lost 4-6. But it was Stove who then fell apart, double-faulting repeatedly, while Wade settled down and carried the last sets...
Married. John Erskine, 65, best-selling romantic satirist (Adam & Eve, Influence of Women - And Its Cure); and Helen Worden, 49, journeywoman-writer and ex-New York World-Telegram reporter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Albuquerque, N.M., three days after his Reno divorce from Pauline Ives Erskine...
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