Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well after dark, in a thundering rain, the rebels' jeep stopped in front of a big, wooden-walled barn with a palm-thatched roof. I hurried inside and blinked at an extraordinary scene: an old woman tending grandchildren, rebel troops milling around, guitarists strumming, and under a dim kerosene lamp, rocking in a chair, surrounded by kids seated on upturned 5-gal. cans, the bearded Rebel Castro. In the next days and nights, always on the move, I talked at length to Fidel Castro and got a thorough look at his ragtag, fanatic force...
...Vienna's Anglo-American Press Association in 1931. With his small, assertive first wife Frances, Gunther was as famed even then for doughty partying as for hard work. In his spare time, fast-working Gunther wrote dozens of political pieces for magazines ranging from Foreign Affairs to Woman's Home Companion...
...happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer for all serious players. A sampling...
...unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that at his coronation in 1930 he was decked out in an identical costume. ¶ A 10-in. tall work showing two figures. Though one head is still to be found, they are obviously a man and a woman, clothed in the style of a Yoruba tribe wedding ceremony. With his left leg wrapped around the right leg of his partner, the male seems to squirm in anticipation. Their arms are linked like square dancers on promenade. The Yoruba believe the lovers to be Oba Tala, the first...
...sidle up to the man with the gun and whisper: 'Where can I get a loan?' Display what you have to sell, not money itself, but what money can buy. I doubt that even the most enticing display of $100 bills would persuade one man or woman to rent your money, but a display of air conditioners might...