Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party had still to slough the ill-fitting skin worn during six years of John Bracken's bumbling leadership. In his farewell address, pedestrian John Bracken argued that to get anywhere, the Tory party must become "a crusading party dedicated to the welfare of the ordinary man and woman." That was not the mood of the convention. Said Acting Chairman M. Grattan O'Leary (of the Ottawa Journal), as he shut off the polite applause for Bracken: "Ladies & gentlemen, we come back now to the hard realities of the business before...
Today's young woman considers herself a lot more sophisticated than her counterparts of the past, but she is no more proof against the "roguery and hypocrisy of seducers." So warned Pope Pius, who explained that the modern girl "believes herself able, with impunity, to read everything, to see everything, to try everything . . . She is disarmed before the peril...
...criminal assault' as a euphemism for the word 'rape.' " But most newsmen may find it hard to drop this traditional euphemism or its twin "statutory offense." Once the Houston Post tried to. The copy went to the composing room, with a sentence that told how a woman ran down the street screaming "He's trying to rape me! Help!" The Post's prim proofreaders, to whom a rule was a rule, split an infinitive as the lesser of two evils, and changed...
Local Angle. It is Tufty's boast (among many) that "I was the only woman writer on the Dewey train in 1944" (not Counting LIFE Researcher Lee Eitingon). The trip paid off with more than news. When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...
Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept...