Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decide whether your Feb. 17 item was supposed to be facetious or not: artificial insemination for spinsters! Aside from the fact that the very idea destroys the meaning of the word "family," can it be possible that Methodist Leader Donald Soper could possibly not know that a woman is called to two types of motherhood-spiritual as well as physical. I'm glad I'm not one of the sheep in this shepherd's fold; I would find frustration in his guidance...
...drastic switch from costlier to cheaper brands. Chain-store sales were brisker than in booming early-1957 because many housewives were forgoing the comparative serenity of the corner delicatessen or grocery store and shopping in supermarkets to save pennies to put into savings accounts. In Chicago a young woman borrowed $500 from a downtown bank at 4½% interest, offering as collateral her $650 savings account drawing 2% interest. She just didn't want to dip into her savings. Commented a bank official: "This kind of thing is getting fairly common...
Most of all, Sukarno wants to be loved and admired. He is happy when surrounded by schoolchildren; it delights him to keep statesmen waiting while he listens patiently to a ragged old woman's complaint. He likes the traditional things of his national life, from Indonesian painting to puppet shows to dukuns (soothsayers). His favorite dukun, a ripe female named Madame Suprapto, last week offered him a particularly explicit prophecy: "The first big bomb will fall in Indonesia in March. The United States will intervene in the struggle between Padang and Djakarta, then the Soviet Union will intervene...
...Mitford, "who preserved for us the story of Newton and the apple") and a respectful admirer of "an English author who lived 150 years ago called Shakespeare ... He was quite mad, but wrote some admirable things." Back in Paris, Voltaire fell plump into the arms of the most remarkable woman in France...
Emergency. In Indianapolis, a boy walked into the children's division of the Central Library, yelled at Librarian Elizabeth Simmons: "Hey woman, get me a book on manners...