Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sperm is consistently blocked from reaching the egg, and intercourse between man and woman proceeds with the knowledge of this separation between them, the human being shows himself to be not only smarter than the animals but also capable of greater ennui. Where is the love in that, and to what is the sex act reduced...
...section of a crowded Harlem department store, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 29, Negro leader of the peaceful, successful 1956 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, was autographing copies of his just-published book, Stride Toward Freedom; The Montgomery Story (Harper & Bros.; $2.95). Suddenly he was confronted by a Negro woman, who demanded: "Are you Mr. King?" King nodded: "Yes, I am." Then Georgia-born Izola Ware Curry, 42, who had lived in New York City on and off for half her life, suddenly flashed a steel letter opener and stabbed King in the upper left side of his chest. Customers...
...same shaky pedestal from which he had toppled Culbertson. Writer Goren had to maintain his position at the card table, and he did it with the help of Helen Sobel, his partner for 19 years. Goren calls Sobel, fourth-ranking player in total master points (4,198), "the greatest woman bridge player in history" - and few male experts would dispute that opinion...
When he landed at New York's Idlewild Airport, a woman from his publisher's office met him with a copy of the unsigned, poison-pen letter-neatly typed, grammatically written and essentially correct. "Harry Golden," it said, "is an ex-convict" who once ran a stock-racketeering Manhattan "bucket shop." Barrel-shaped, cigar-chewing Harry Golden smiled long and thoughtfully. "I've been expecting it for some time," said...
Staring carefully at her face in the mirror, smoothing the glossy black hair and shading the lids above expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...