Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, officials at the International Beauty Show figured that the U.S. woman's face depreciates at an $85-a-year clip, reasoned that she should be able to deduct facial repair costs from her income...
...average U.S. woman, announced the National Institute for Human Relations, talks slower than she used to. Her rate before the war: 175 words a minute. Her current rate...
...bodies, reburied them until sure of being paid, and sometimes claimed reward money for remains which were not those of U.S. soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...
...should be compelled by all this display to know something; is all this some esoteric concert, some tragic sequence?" This passage sums up the reader's feelings perfectly. After wading through a series of nauseating images such as a basement where "guts ran knee deep," and after watching a woman 'who likes to be beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly such, and if psychological...
...readings will be held tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Big Tree. Parts to be reassigned are those of Joxer, a comedy role, Mary, second female lead, and Mrs. Madigan, a 45 year old woman...