Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants women "to be people" and shed their "housewife mentality," but she herself is obsessed with tiresome questions of "womanliness," "fulfillment," and political power for women. She says, with some pride, that she's been "a witch of Salem for four years, since my book came out. People are still cutting me up." She conducts casual conversations like fact-finding sessions. Drinking tea with the women law students, she quizzed them, not about interests in law or their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan...
Impressed by the book, many of the younger Freedomites began turning a hand to work in the prison, asked for other books and schoolteachers, and slowly shed their traditional sullenness. To date, 14 have been paroled, and last week Canadian officials proudly announced that the first returnees applied at the Kootenay government land office to buy land in burnt-out Krestova. For the first time, Freedomites will be landowning, taxpaying citizens...
...would have decided that I was now taking courses in Southern history and politics. In point of fact, I have taken none in either. Most of us in the program discovered new horizons while shopping around for courses during the first few weeks of the Fall term. We promptly shed many prior intentions in favor of new ones. (I expect Phil Ardery did the same at some point in his Harvard career...
...tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost, in the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust...
...them. The beggar tried to explain. "Do you take me for a fool?" the judge bellowed indignantly. "All your life we've been kind enough to carry you everywhere, and now do you mean to tell me that you couldn't go the short distance between the shed and her hut?" Somebody screamed, "Cut off his hands!" The villagers roared in approval. "What will I do?" the beggar wailed. "I have no legs, and now you want to take away my hands!" But the next morning they cut off the beggar's hands, and when the stumps...