Word: maling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family regulation except the rhythm method. Unfortunately, that form of birth control has proved far too sophisticated for Latin America's widely uneducated masses. Another factor is machismo, a he-man complex that makes sexual prowess and large families-in or out of wedlock-a matter of male pride. In some areas of Latin America, a man who has fathered only five or six children may be regarded by his friends as something of a laggard, if not bordering on impotence. Many women resort to abortion as a form of birth control. For every birth in Uruguay, there...
Items: a full-grown female of the species measures a full 3 ft. from top to tail, and her wings spread 7 ft. and more; the male, or tiercel, is smaller by a third. The golden eagle's foot is longer than a man's hand, and its talons are as sharp as a razor. Its eye, a miracle of natural engineering, focuses simultaneously upon every point in its field of vision. It can soar above the highest Rockies and power-dive upon its prey at more than 12,0 m.p.h. Its prey of preference are small animals...
...will. It seems unfortunate that the segregation problem should become magnified in this case so that it infringes upon a basic right of every American citizen, white and Negro: the right to pass his property on to whomever he desires. If, by endowing a school for "poor, white male orphans," Mr. Girard discriminated against the Negro, then he also discriminated against the rich and females and children who are not orphans. If it is discriminatory for a man to will his money to an orphanage for poor, white male orphans, is it not also discriminatory if a man wills money...
...additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances G. Knight, went a step further. She issued a directive urging female employees to "stand near the alarm button whenever riding elevators" and to "always work in teams," ordered that male employees, upon request, escort girls to the basement parking garage or the building's sign-out desk after regular working hours...
Lauren Friedman's Victoria is a bit monotonous once she moves into her male disguise, but the part does not seem to allow for much variety. Gloria Maddox's exaggerated Rose is admirable...