Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman shifted her burden, answered: "I have five children. I gave my wedding ring for these potatoes...
...bumped into an Italian woman who had rushed forward to ask that her son be allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...
Last week, in an expensive flowered dress and white picture hat, her burnished, bleached gold hair in sleek rolls over her ivory nape (Italians compared her to Lana Turner), Eva Perón bared her soul to Italy's League of Women Voters. "I am a woman of the people," she said. "All my efforts, all my longings and all my concerns are directed to support women's just aspirations." Eva and the women of Italy sighed deeply. Then, smiling graciously, Argentina's First Lady accepted their gift: a 1554 copy of the Divine Comedy-by Dante...
Andrei Vishinsky, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, considered the woman question. A Canadian official reported that when Vishinsky refused to allow him to take his Russian wife home to Canada (a decision later reversed by Stalin), he said: "The duty of Russian women is to produce Soviet children. . . . Most women who marry foreigners are of the wrong type. . . . Women talk too much, and thus they give the wrong impression of the Soviet Union...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan cross each other up in Jean Renoir's sullen thriller (TIME, June...