Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homework. In Reno, four instructors of a Stead A.F.B. survival training course called "sneaking and peeking" were caught sneaking and peeking late at night at a University of Nevada woman's dormitory...
...Femininity, African style, where a woman had the last word. See FOREIGN NEWS...
...twice as tough. Charlie's father. Lawyer Abraham Halleck * was a two-term Republican state senator who preached Republicanism as gospel. But if his party faith is a legacy from Father Abraham. Charlie Halleck inherited his energy and ambition from his mother, Lura ("Birdie") Halleck, a remarkable woman who taught herself to type legal abstracts, ran Abraham's law office, drove the family's National, managed an eleven-room house, and raised a brood of five children...
Reel One: No sooner had FBI agents arrived on the scene than wild cries of "brutality" began to rise. After a visit by FBImen, a woman witness cut her wrists in a dramatic-but curiously unconvincing-gesture toward suicide. The janitor at the jail in Poplarville, questioned by agents, swallowed a nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought...
...expresses his outrage at the approach of death by browbeating his timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying: "God forgive me ... if I should judge you." These stories were originally published in 1925, and the problem of white and black that is currently convulsing South Africa is touched on in only one; grimly and perhaps prophetically...