Word: menfolk
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Such treatment of religious themes, peopled with Cookham's ham-handed menfolk and bosomy barmaids painted in flat, low-keyed colors, has kept Artist Spencer a storm center. Harrumphed Fellow Artist Sir Winston Churchill: "If that is the Resurrection. I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep." But it has also brought Spencer fame, if not riches, including membership in the Royal Academy and the order of Commander of the British Empire...
...driven out by village elders. Said one elder indignantly: "They asked us indecent questions." Among the Jaunswaris themselves a reform movement, with all members taking the vow of monogamy, has been organized by a college graduate named Surat Singh. Although his movement is enthusiastically supported by the women, the menfolk are threatening to drive Surat Singh and all his followers into the plains. Now the Indian government has a new idea. Provincial Social Welfare Minister Acharya Jugal proposes to halt immigrant labor, seal off Jaunswar Bawar from outside influences, and to send in a new group of social workers...
...wish to deal with reasonable men, so you'll have to deal with madmen," said one of the Istiqlal leaders when the French arrested him. Madmen were soon on the warpath. In the teeming bidonvilles, where few Frenchmen dare enter, veiled women made grenades. Their menfolk banded together in terrorist societies-the Black Crescent, Black Hand, and many others. Egged on by the mullahs and by the Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives...
...purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard all day in their father's fields, and at the end of each long day they were forced to wait patiently while the menfolk finished their evening meal at the family dinner table. Then, along with their mother, the girls were permitted to squat on the floor and eat what was left...
...year. Amateur decorators slapped on 75% (400 million gals.) of all the paint used in the U.S., pasted up 60% (150 million rolls) of all the wallpaper, laid 50% (500 million sq. ft.) of all the asphalt tile, enough to cover the entire state of Oregon. And while the menfolk labored mightily, 35 million U.S. women made their own clothes (using 750 million yds. of cloth), gave themselves 32 million home permanents, leafed through millions of copies of do-it-yourself magazines and books, looking for still more projects for their husbands and themselves...