Word: scrubwoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). "Let Me Hear You Whisper" might seem a vari ation on the old frog-and-princess tale: it's the story of a scrubwoman (Ruth White) who strikes up a friendship with a porpoise, played by a life-size puppet and Puppeteer Bil Baird's voice...
...election campaign) passed out thousands of free miniature soccer balls, T-shirts and campaign buttons bearing the royalist party color (yellow). More important for Hassan, however, was the traditional apathy of Morocco's 75% illiterate population. In the ancient city of Fez, a heavily veiled scrubwoman candidly declared, "I do not know what it is all about, but I am going to vote for my King...
...will spoil the appetite." The Chicago Tribune permits "s.o.b.," but defines it as a "Trumanism." The Los Angeles Times, concluding that all women aren't ladies, ungallantly applies its conclusion: "A salesgirl or a saleswoman is not a saleslady, and a washerwoman is not a washlady, so a scrubwoman cannot be a scrublady." In Detroit, the News withholds the title of "Mr." from all males who are not Protestant clergy, dead, or the President of the United States. "However," cautions the News, "other cases may arise in which a 'tone of respect is desirable; in such cases...