Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please tell . . . Mr. Ventre that Resistentialism is not half as complicated as he makes it [TIME, July 12]. Like my husband, he may throw up his hands at the feminine approach, but any woman will tell you that all you have to do is talk to Things...
...report on the typical TIME-reading woman will be ready soon...
...next day a woman customer grinned shyly at Butcher Hartkopf and said: "You sure hit me right on the head...
Last week the District of Columbia Health Department went on the air to do something about it, broadcast over radio station WTTOP an interview recorded in a venereal disease clinic. A woman's voice quavered a bit as she answered the intimate questions. Had she ever thought about gonorrhea? "No, I had not thought about the disease very much, only in the way that one thinks about leprosy." It turned out that the patient, an unidentified office worker, did have gonorrhea...
...Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process is involved...