Word: washerwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josephine Baker (Columbia; 2 sides LP). A cross section of the French songs that made the daughter of a St. Louis washerwoman the toast of Paris, including J'ai Deux Amours, C'est Lui, La, Petite Tonkinoise...
...Greek businessman sought ECA backing for a gold-mining project in Macedonia, an ECA official snapped: "The best place to dig for gold in Greece is in people's mattresses." The imprint of war still remains heavy on the land-and even on the language. A Greek washerwoman, bent over her heaped sink, will say: "Polemo tin bougada" (I am making war on the laundry). A truck driver sprawling underneath his truck will say: "Polemo tin mechani" (I am at war with the engine). After nine years of invasion, occupation and civil war, polemen (to make war) in colloquial...
Dolores Ibarruri, called "La Pasionaria," born the daughter of a coalminer, worked as a washerwoman. She won her nickname for her fiery speeches during Spain's civil war (sample: "Women of Madrid! Do not hinder your husbands from going to war. It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward"). She is now secretary general of what's left of the Spanish Communist Party...