Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides the firm assurance of lasting peace, 1946's woman had other quests. In the U.S. she scrabbled for dwelling space, for bread (in the spring) for meat (in the fall) and for sugar (at year's end). In China's Hunan Province she sought any food at all (including a whitish clay called, pathetically, "Goddess of Mercy"), but she did not find enough, and thousands starved while relief distribution was immobilized by red tape. In Germany she sought cigarets; in Russia, shoes; in Britain, sheets. She learned (what she had long suspected) that privation marched with...
...Stafford Cripps, austere president of the Board of Trade, was the prospective recipient of a somewhat pointed Christmas present. In London, one Desmond Leslie had read of the woman who wrote Sir Stafford telling him where he could buy bed sheets (TIME, Dec. 9). So he offered Sir Stafford "something I feel would be much more in your line"-an Indian bed of nails (a present to Leslie from a fakir...
...first day only one fighter was badly hurt, eight others injured. In four days' fighting last year, 144 ticos were hurt, including a woman named Chica Mena who could not resist the temptation to join in. This year's feature: night fighting, with black bulls...
...very Best-Dressed Woman, reported Manhattan's dressmakers, was Mrs. Howard Hawks, the Hollywood producer's wife, who was not among the top ten the year before. The rest of the latest ten-best-dressed were mostly old familiars who had been on & off various lists for years-e.g., Mrs. Harrison Williams, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart...
...ideal would be to produce a situation in which it could be said that every man, woman and child . . . understood the large outlines-economic, racial, social and political -of modern international relations...