Word: movement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...active historian and one of the chief figures in the western movement today," Frank B. Friedel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday...
...from the post permanently. (My husband is a career Army Officer and was an instructor there). When I appealed for support to a national women's rights organization in Washington, D.C., I was told to "button my lip" because the Playboy Corporation had donated money to the women's movement...
...They seriously misjudged the depth of the women's movement," said Ellie Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women...
Scientists still do not know how it produces its psychic effects, but they believe it somehow causes a buildup of "neuro-transmitters." substances that make possible the movement of impulses across nerve endings. It also causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and some of its other consequences are distinctly unpleasant. Prolonged use sometimes causes the nasal tissues to wear away so that the nose itself collapses. Chronic use may lead to a psychosis most resembling alcoholic DTs. Overdoses, particularly when injected, can lead to convulsions, heart and respiratory failure and death...
...that the prejudice in favor of mothers is built on outdated sex roles: women should stay at home, fathers are poor at nurturing and generally wish to be free of children after divorce. Today, however, about 60% of divorced women work outside the home, and the women's movement has encouraged many men to take a larger role on the domestic front. Says William Haddad, a political writer and co-author of the joint-custody book The Disposable Parent, "In the court, stereotypes prevail. The court does not yet conceive of shared roles...