Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sing said her discharge stemmed from problems she had caring for her four-year old daughter that forced her to bring the child to work and miss one and a half days of work...
Peggy S. Rigg, Sing's lawyer, said in court yesterday. "The decision to dismiss my client was based on a sexual stereotype of women which says that because she is a woman and because she has a child she will miss work...
...early morning hours of last June 29, Butler Young Jr., a 21-year-old black laborer, was arrested by two white police officers from the town of Byhalia, Miss. (pop. 750), for hit-and-run driving. With the Byhalia police was a black deputy sheriff from adjacent DeSoto County, where the alleged hit-and-run incident had taken place. The sheriff climbed into the back of the Byhalia officers' car along with Young, and the three policemen set off to take their prisoner to jail. Young never made...
...Have you hugged your kid today?" asks one of the new columns in some 20 South Carolina newspapers. The columnist is Nancy Thurmond, 28, Miss South Carolina of 1966, and the wife of Senator Strom Thurmond, 72. Though she admits that she is a newcomer to child rearing (her own kids are only 11 months, 2 and 3), Nancy has completed three installments of her feature titled "Mother's Medicine," and hopes that her advice will "make the day go better" for some of her husband's constituents...
...Quincy probably offers more choice than any other high school in the U.S. At one end of the spectrum is the Traditional School. There, teachers hand out conventional assignments, deliver lectures and give grades; students sit in rows, take mostly required courses and call the teachers Mr., Mrs. or Miss. At the other extreme is the Fine Arts School, where students make their own weekly schedules, work at their own pace, call teachers by their first names, and have a choice of more than 50 courses, 28 of them arts-oriented. Among the others are such offbeat courses as Coping...