Word: nashe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening to the cooing of the pro-abortion leader's nine-month-old daughter. Making the correspondents' task even more difficult was the fact that many women still have mixed feelings about abortion. Says Chicago Correspondent Madeleine Nash, recalling a visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul: "The cheerful waiting room could have been in any doctor's or dentist's office. But the impression that lingers is not of physical surroundings, but of the emotionally charged atmosphere...
...paused for breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset Maugham...
Most often, though, TIME reporters and photographers were better, though bulkily, equipped. They sweated inside disposable vinyl body suits and bootees and hard hats. Wearing a respirator was a new experience for Chicago-based Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who went to dump sites in six states. Says she: "Breathing through those things is hard labor And even with one, sharp fumes cut through to create a slight burning in your throat." Mandatory rubber gloves made reporters' notes look more like toddlers' scrawls...
...Asians often find that early in a conversation with Russians they have to establish clearly that they are not Chinese, or pro-Chinese, before their hosts lower their guard. Says a young Muscovite: "When we see yellow skin and slanted eyes, we automatically want to know, is this guy nash [one of ours]? Is he on our side?" If an American talks international politics with a Russian, the subject of China is sure to come up. Sooner or later, the Russian is likely to lean forward and say, almost in so many words, "We white folks have got to stick...
...Nash, coach of a Penn boat that has lost to both Harvard and Yale, sees it this way: "I think that Yale is a stronger crew, and Harvard is a racier crew," which means the Crimson performs better in race conditions...