Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spanish newspapers printed disturbing reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
None of the candidates represented a political party, and the native voting generally followed tribal lines, with the numerically strong Bakongo emerging on top. Although women could not vote, they could be candidates. One African woman was elected councilor; the two white women candidates were defeated. The Belgian authorities have agreed to "consult" with the newly elected councilors but not necessarily follow their recommendations. A colonial official explained: "We will allow them to make little mistakes-but not a big nonsense...
France's Cinemacaroon Brigitte (And God Created Woman) Bardot, who won a 1957 Victoire (France's Oscar), proved the infinite ingenuity of the French in inventing new human relationships. She offered to be the godmother of a baby girl born to her ex-husband, Director Roger Vadim, and a Danish model one day after he and Brigitte were divorced...
Built-in Hi-Fi. Examining a woman patient this way in 1931, Dr. Penfield touched part of the left temporal lobe. She began to recall giving birth more than 20 years earlier. When the electrode was applied to the cut surface in the forward part of the temporal lobe during an operation on a 26-year-old secretary, she suddenly remarked: "I hear music." Minutes later, without her knowledge, the electrode was reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote...
...Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...