Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dazedly the good people of Nashville began to recognize the horror of what had occurred. Those elements of officialdom, press and public that had stood aside from the battle were shocked into a new appreciation of law and order. "Ain't things got terrible?" wailed one frail old woman who had demonstrated against integration only the day before. "This is no longer a matter of segregation or desegregation," said one school official. "This is a matter of sheer lawlessness. We're up against thugs...
...There once was a woman with unsightly feet. People whispered about her as she passed: "Look at that gal with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...
Many a husband returning home from work at dinnertime last week was startled to find a different-looking woman in the house. To some this brought a sudden, tingling exhilaration, but a second look (perhaps at the feet) established that the wife was the same, only the hair different. It glinted with a new hue. The husband had been dragged into the host of U.S. men whose wives have become touched with tint...
...other 300 delegates from nine Arab countries* goggling, the princess tucked one shapely foot under her and discussed her favorite topics: divorce and the veil. Morocco, she said, will soon have a law requiring men to produce legitimate reasons for a divorce instead of just telling a woman three times to go away. "Of course," she added, "we cannot forbid divorce, and besides, if a man and woman don't get along, they should not be forced to remain together. But we can make it so hard on men that we hope the rate will...
...first translating the heat image into a light image. If necessary, the instruments can be made sensitive to very small differences of temperature. An object that is one degree warmer or colder than its environment is detectable under field conditions. In the laboratory much smaller contrasts are sufficient. A woman's legs photograph bright because her stockings are transparent to heat from her skin. Her girdle shows faintly under her skirt because it is in close contact with body heat...