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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent subject for art and comedy without having to be crude or blatantly erotic. Although it is, really, all about sex, it has none of the relatively clumsy Hollywood eroticism of the writhing Presley genre, or even of recent French letdowns, such as And God Created Woman...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Smiles of a Summer Night and An Alligator Named Daisy | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

...other, as part of the dinner table conversation at a party, that the wife cannot seduce the man on his right in fifteen minutes (the same man, incidentally, whom the Count recently met in his--the Count's--nightshirt at the house of their mutual mistress); they bet; the woman later turns out to have won--and in eight minutes, not fifteen. Good for Boston. Cultural relativism. Moral perspectives. Jolly good...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Smiles of a Summer Night and An Alligator Named Daisy | 6/3/1958 | See Source »

Baltimore's Dr. Timanus, now barred from practice and living in retirement, testified that he used the best medical techniques available (mostly in the days before antibiotics). In every case he tried to get the referring doctor to state in writing that the woman's health would be jeopardized by continuation of the pregnancy. Since Dr. Timanus performed almost five times as many abortions as turned up in the Kinsey study, his analysis may have a wider application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion in the U.S. | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...come straight from another lover's bed, but there was sentiment of a sort. On St. Helena Napoleon confessed: "I really did love her; I had no respect for her. She was too much of a liar. But there was something taking about her. She was a true woman. She had the prettiest little tail imaginable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...Little Woman. In Sacramento, Ronald Dean Johnson filed suit for annulment of his marriage, charged that his wife 1) said she was 32 but is actually 47, 2) claimed to be a secret federal agent but is actually a dance-hall girl, 3) alleged widowhood although her former husband is alive in Texas, 4) told him about her ten-year-old child but forgot to mention the ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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