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Word: wagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott, who is black, is a solid refutation of the widely held notion that feminism is strictly a white, middle-class issue. That remains a common enough criticism, as if the whole movement could be bundled up in a Volvo station wagon and sent off for a spin into irrelevancy. In fact, minority women may still be more concerned with problems of employment and discrimination than with the comparatively rarefied legalities of a constitutional amendment. But even their priority issues, in the words of former NOW President Aileen Hernandez, "flow out of the ERA." Adds Ruth Mandel, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...these 175 acres for almost 70 years. His daughter Theresa, 19, and son Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads got better once they had to get the buses through to these consolidated schools. And the bulk truck comes every day to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Mind over Mud | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...trying to ask a policeman what was happening when I got punched from behind in the left eye," said Mokrzyci, adding. "I was then handcuffed by a cop and dragged by my hair into a paddy wagon...

Author: By Mark A. Hurwitz and Dean R. Madden, S | Title: 300 Protest 'Police Brutality' At Boston University Rally | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

Packer said that when he tried to protest, the police turned on him and began to best him. His friend, Martha Kramer, then tired to interfere and the police" threw her against the wagon and she subsequently lost her front tooth," Packer said...

Author: By Clare M. Mchugh, | Title: City Council to Consider Issue of Policy Conduct | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...obvious flake unloads his home computer from a Mercedes station wagon with Connecticut plates, and Dad says something like, "So really, what does it take to get in? He's got top-notch scores; will he make it?" They told us about this at proctor orientation, but it hadn't seemed possible. "Yes," I reply, "I can guarantee...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Looking Out for the Harolds | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

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