Word: martha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farmers were helped to achieve that abundance by an Indian summer that blessed much of the country this month: maples on Martha's Vineyard held their bright leaves until last week, and the Chinese tallow trees of the Texas prairies continued their spectacular display of long red leaves. In the San Fernando Valley, Calif., as citizens started using their fireplaces, the tangy aroma of burning eucalyptus logs hung in the air. Only a few flurries of snow have dusted the highest mountains of New England, though by last week the first real blast of winter had struck the Rocky...
...term Democratic Representative Martha Keys of Kansas once had a twelve-point lead in polls over conservative Republican Jim Jeffries. But right-to-life adherents ganged up on her, and others doubted her ability to combine her marriage to Indiana Representative Andrew Jacobs with representing Kansas. Said Jeffries: "Martha doesn't shop here any more." She lost...
Perhaps the most basic barrier to women's political success is outright sexism?a feeling, among women as well as men, that a woman's place is in the home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions...
Playing up at number two due to the absence of Martha Roberts, sophomore Meg Meyer improved on Richmond's performance in dropping but two games in her speedy two set win. Freshmen at three, four, and five, Abbey Meiselman, Kristen Mertz and Diedre Wilde also triumphed with consummate ease, dropping only four, two, and four games respectively...
...Martha Leape, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, said yesterday she was unaware that more than one student was sick...