Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jane Arney Bremerton, Wash...
Many sufferers compulsively change towels and sheets and wash their hands dozens of times a day. One sign of the herpetic, says Psychotherapist Herships, is chapped hands from overwashing. "You never think you're clean enough," he says. Since friction can trigger a recurrence, tight jeans, the uniform of the sexual revolution, are out. Men switch from jockey to boxer shorts, and women often give up wearing panties or pantyhose. One New York woman, a ballet dancer by avocation, could not dance for a year because tights and leotards were too painful...
...grownups," says Demetrius Toney, 17, of White Plains, N.Y. Maybe the reason is that, for Demetrius, it has long been a part of his second nature. His mother is a day worker, cleaning other people's houses, "so I do everything in our house. I sweep, I wash dishes. This week my brother is doing the laundry." At U.C.L.A., Director of the Women's Resource Center Tina Oakland says, "Most college women think the movement has worked. Girls don't think they need a women's movement. They think society is fair." Lori Harrington, 21, of Yonkers...
...would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths plurality to approve a constitutional amendment. Fasting and civil disobedience have become lobbying tactics. Last week 20 ardent ERA supporters chained themselves to the brass railing outside the senate chambers in Springfield, Ill. Said Mary Whitmore of Bellevue, Wash.: "These chains dramatize the economic slavery...
...Attorney General Elliot Richardson, 61, who quit rather than carry out order to fire Cox, practices law in Washington. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus, 49, who also refused, is senior vice president of Weyerhaeuser Co. in Tacoma, Wash. Robert Bork, 55, third-ranking Justice Department official who did dismiss Cox, was appointed federal appeals court judge by President Reagan...