Word: woman
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...appear. They are still selling throughout Costa Rica for about 22? apiece. For many Costa Ricans, who framed the picture and hung it in their homes, it was the first time they had seen a photograph of Figueres and Ulate together. The original photograph was taken by an American woman resident of Costa Rica last fall and released to TIME and the Associated Press...
...born in the little village of Bohola, County Mayo, Ireland, the eldest of eleven children. His mother, a strong-willed woman, was determined that he should be a priest. To please her, when he was 18, he went off to Spain and the University of Salamanca. But Spain made him restless-he steeped himself in the wild history of the Spanish conquistadors* -and after a year and a half he went to Cherbourg, and slipped off to America in the steerage of a liner...
...night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear...
...week's end, Dorothy was a trifle piqued over one incident. A woman called and told her that she, too, was a divorcee with two children and would Dorothy please send her any men she didn't want. "I told her," said Dorothy coldly, "to get her own man. I'm not running a matrimonial bureau...
...other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...