Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might hold steady until military victories and U.S. aid could brace it. But the housewives feared to look ahead more than a single day. In busy Seymour Street market they shuffled from stall to stall, picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
...came by, bent over with the weight of his wife wrapped in a quilt on his back. Asked how she was, the old man whispered "Mo akan" (Too late), but very low, so that the little boy clinging to the woman's dangling hand should not hear...
...were summer residents in the Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although...
Grocery Bills. A hearty and likable woman, Mrs. Coolidge entertains a lot, likes to laugh at jokes on herself-on her height, on her hearing, her habit of dropping her programs, gloves and handbags...
...woman...