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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan's attempts at street-corner speeches in Scotland and Yorkshire. And at Swansea, as Macmillan walked wearily toward a railroad station entrance after a seven-speech day, a woman bystander suddenly assailed him with a loud "Boo-oo-oo." Rounding on his tormentor, the Prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Dubious Battle | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...began in 1810. By rule, the President himself reads the declaration, or entrusts it to a high-ranking Cabinet minister. Three weeks ago, when Independence Day came around once more. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos shattered tradition. For the first time in history, he had the Grito read by a woman: Amalia de Castillo Ledon, Mexico's leading feminist and the Under Secretary of Education for Cultural Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Woman's World | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...profit from stage appearances and films (his latest: Where the Hot Wind Blows with Gina Lollobrigida). The mesmeric effect he has on females of all ages only occasionally bothers his wife, Cinemactress Simone (Room at the Top] Signoret. "When it gets too boring," says she, "and a woman won't leave the dressing room, I put on my prostitute face and just tell her to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Troubadour from France | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...widest study yet made of the effect of German measles on the fetus when it strikes a woman during the first three months of pregnancy. In 1957 an epidemic swept 2,000,000 Formosans. The island's high pregnancy rate gives Namru-2 a mass of data now being analyzed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medics for the Millions | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...usually life without Father. Saturdays he hops out to the Chevy proving grounds, nights and Sundays he buries himself under three to four hours of homework. Any hour of day or night, dealers and customers phone him for counsel. In the middle of the night recently, a weeping woman phoned from Minneapolis, said that she was tired of living in sin. But the man refused to marry her until he got the Chevy that he had ordered for a honeymoon trip. Please, couldn't Mr. Cole do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Generation | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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