Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marilyn Maxwell, 49, statuesque blonde film fixture of the '40s and early '50s; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After breaking into show business as a big-band singer, Maxwell found her forte as a straight-faced foil to movie comedians. Frequently cast as a slit-skirt and sweater type, she outlasted many of her Hollywood competitors and managed the transition to television with relative ease. She made many guest appearances on comedy and variety shows, got a regular role in the 1961 Bus Stop series, then successfully returned to cabaret singing...
...labor force, they account for only 10% of the nation's more than 350,000 scientists. Furthermore, women in the sciences earn fewer doctorates than men, have more trouble winning tenured posts in universities, are paid less than males in the same field-the so-called "skirt differential"-and all too often find it almost impossible to reach the top rungs of their profession. The National Academy of Sciences, for instance, currently has only nine women among its more than 800 elected members. Of 278 Nobel Prizes in science, only six have been awarded to women (two to Marie...
...Billie Jean, sexist slights have often been compounded by tennis' traditional snootiness. In her first tournament, as a preteenager in Southern California, she was ordered out of a group picture because she was wearing shorts instead of a tennis dress. No one expects Robyn to wear a skirt while she is riding a horse, but her dressing facilities are inevitably second-rate; at Gulfstream Park, near Miami, she changes in the doctor's office...
...didn't have the grace of a faded star. His over madeup wife in a shiny silver coat handed out sheets and said. "My husband's running for Vice President." Meanwhile her husband was saying to the green-eyed McGovern girl that he'd be glad to "chase your skirt anytime, honey...
...York Magazine reporter Richard Reeves that doing so would "force me out of the race. "McGovern has been hammering away at Muskie's reticence, wondering who is on this list who might prove so embarassing to the Maine Senator. In a typical encounter last Sunday evening, Muskie tried to skirt the issue. In his closing remarks in a debate at the University of New Hampshire, Muskie said, "I disclosed my sources two years before any of the other candidates. When they didn't follow suit, I decided we needed a policy that would apply to all the candidates, including...