Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 31 report on Mrs. Golda Meir: long before the two women leaders mentioned, the Jews had already been governed by another woman, the prophetess Deborah (Judges...
Bless the sweet woman! I think she may have fired the shot heard 'round the U.S.A...
...heartwarming display of courage in the face of almost insurmountable odds, an inspiration to every "housebroken," intimidated victim of bureaucracy's unbending and arrogant illogic: for Woman of the Year, who else but Margaret Ann Lockwood...
Policemen asked the same question, soon discovered that Paul Harold Orgeron was an ex-convict and sometime tile layer, syphilitic, illiterate, and obsessed by dark fantasies of power and gods. He had been married, divorced, had remarried the same woman and been divorced again. He had cowed his daughter Zelda with abuse and with ugly accusations of promiscuity. He had fathered a son by his stepdaughter Betty Jean, who had run away in fear and shame. And in all the world-in some tormented way-he loved only the memory of Betty Jean and their son Dusty...
Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue, crying out in a dire, haunting voice, "Prepare to meet your God!" Her hat and dress are bedraggled, and she carries a worn paper shopping bag in one hand while the other is raised in ominous prophetic warning. The passers-by either smirk or ignore her or shake their heads: the last thing any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate expects to do on the public streets or elsewhere is to meet his God--at least in any literal sense...