Word: nora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before the evening is through, the talented five-member cast has toppled icons up and down the Great White Way, everybody from those women of the year, Lauren Bacall and Raquel Welch, to those women of every year, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. In a crater-deep voice, Nora Mae Lyng, 30, imitates Bacall in Woman of the Year...
...large number of respondents planning further academic training generally conceded a degree of fear that their added schooling would end in frustration. "I'm absolutely, terribly influenced by economic concerns," said Nora M. Hemann, who has applied to a fine arts program. "I'm interested in teaching, and I've heard it's a very closed field; as I understand it, it's either sink or swim...
...papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain from voting. The move wins him an interview with Pope Paul VI, whom he lectures about the need for a new theology of sexual morality. Sean could use it himself: he has just spent two weeks in bed with Nora. Neither the interlude nor a brash period of liberalism prevents his rise, however, first to bishop and then, after a telephone call from Pope Paul, to Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago...
...Nora stood up. 'Well, I'd better leave...
...past love tumbled through his mind. Oakland Beach ... Amalfi ... Yet surely the sweetness would be short-lived. Having her, he would lose her. Not having her, he could love her forever. Not for Jimmy McGuire, not for all the priests of Chicago, not even for the Pope, but for Nora ... yes, for Nora ... he would do what his damn fool Church and his damn fool God wanted him to do. He disengaged himself from the embrace. 'I've got to get ready for Mass...