Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, and sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek. Though not a member of the Communist Party, Madame Soong has often been trotted out to endorse Red policies. Long regarded by many an overseas Chinese as a cultured, sincere woman, she is both admired and pitied as a bird in a lacquered cage, singing the tunes the Communists want sung. As President of Red China, she would be a respectable figurehead...
Bodies were left in sun-speckled streets as police warnings. One Santiago cop of the Batista regime, trying to break down a rebel woman, brought one of her brother's eyeballs on a platter to her cell. Other rebels were forced to watch their wives raped by cops. A U.S. resident of Santiago, who chanced upon Police Chief Rafael Salas Canizares shooting four young rebels dead in the street, reported: "He was in a state of maniacal ecstasy-face flushed, eyes bright, breathing hard...
This week a woman of 44, first patient operated on with the machine's aid, was making a good recovery after an operation to close an opening between her heart's chambers...
...since the heyday of Andrea Mead Lawrence have U.S. woman skiers offered notable competition for the talented European girls. But last week in the Austrian town of Kitzbühel, ski buffs were talking enthusiastically about a pair of pretty 20-year-olds from New England who have set the skiing fraternity on its ear. At Grindelwald, Switzerland, the week before, Penny Pitou had won the downhill and combined championships, and Betsy Snite had taken the giant slalom, finished second to Penny in the downhill. Bubbled Betsy: "We came to Kitzbühel to find ourselves famous...
Frugally, quietly, and keeping her own counsel, Mary Clarke lived the uneventful life of a New England spinster. In 1947 she made her will, and in 1950, at 90, she died. Last week, surprised Smith College officials had good reason to wonder what sort of woman she had been. Spinster Clarke had seen no need to bother the college at the time, but in her will she directed that some $200,000 be held and invested by a Rhode Island bank until it grew to $400,000, then given to Smith. By last week, when Smith got the belated news...