Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Every Weapon. The ladies-moving spirit was an invincible feminist, wan, whisperingly insistent, 65-year-old Alice Paul. During World War I, she had been thrown into jail for picketing the White House; she was forcibly fed when she declined to eat. She helped found the National Woman's Party. She was the spiritual sister of Abigail Adams, of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the first bloomer girl, of those heroines of women's rights-Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott-before whose statue in the crypt of the Capitol she had posed, tight-lipped...
...Sander's life-by hanging-if it so willed. Indicted on a charge of murder, he rose last week in superior court to make his plea. "What say you?" the clerk asked him. He said clearly: "Not guilty." Free on $25,000 bail, barred temporarily from practicing, wan and tired, he walked out of court to await his trial...