Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time at 16. he was enthroned by the French at 18, soon surprised them by showing his independence: spiritual as well as political leader of more than 8,000.000 Moslems, he remained faithful to the Koran while amplifying some of its ancient dictates (e.g., by promoting woman suffrage), welcomed progress in public works, education. True to tradition, in his youth he also collected guns, race horses, cars, took a second wife...
...Five bucks says they won't do it," a red-cheeked lad commented. We told him we didn't gamble, and also gently reminded him that he was implanted on our toes. An old woman with black coat and cane tottered across the safety line, and an officer quickly retrieved...
...return to his former life, "the same person, but altogether different." Progoff agrees with the author of The Cloud that this ultimate success may regulate "his conduct ao agreeably, both in body and in soul, that it will make him most attractive to every man and woman who sees him." It may also make him "well able to render judgment, if the need should arise, for people of all natures and dispositions...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into the touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...
...when she puts an Elvis Presley record on her gramophone. In More Friend Than Lodger, Wilson plots a triangle, not only of marital infidelity but of social insecurity, involving a stuffy publisher, his disarmingly bitchy wife and a handsome sort of literary confidence man-a triangle in which the woman adds up all the angles and makes the sum come out to a lot more than...