Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list was typical. Margaret Mead was a small woman, but she got around. She spoke volubly and carried a forked stick. Her studies-and the two dozen books that resulted from them-revolutionized her chosen field of anthropology. Long before her colleagues recognized the validity of her approach, she studied the biological, psychological and sociological forces that shaped personality in primitive cultures, then used her findings to explain how individuals learn adult roles in modern societies. Her application of this approach to other areas and her willingness to speak out on almost any subject made her ideas-and her dumpy...
...Eight men and one woman from the same office are riding the elevator back to work after lunch. The woman, naturally, is in the back of the elevator, since the men all stood aside to allow her to enter first. When the elevator door opens on the eighth floor...
...inhale deeply and, rolling their eyes to the ceiling and fluttering their hands in the vicinity of their heads, attempt to crowd aside so that the one woman, in the fragility of her gender, may exit first, followed by eight men and their dense exhalation of martini fumes. b) Since the sex of the passengers is irrelevant here, everyone leaves the elevator in the most efficient and logical order, the men nearest the door departing first. As some people of both sexes are still uncomfortable with such uncourtly procedures, a man may put them at their ease by making...
...friend's Sunday brunch, a woman uses an Anglo-Saxon barnyard expression. A polite male will...
...Push half a grapefruit in the woman' s face...