Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters gave Republican Milliken a third term in the Michigan statehouse but ejected G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin. In Kansas, Republican Governor Robert Bennett was ousted by Democrat John Carlin, but Republican Nancy Kassebaum coasted to an easy victory over her Democratic opponent, Bill Roy, and thus became the only woman to serve in the Senate at the present time...
...blindness--the refusal by so many South African whites to realize that black South Africans have needs and desires just as the whites do--is perhaps the most disturbing element of the gap between the races. The complete failure to understand that the black woman who works as the family maid might like running water in the servants' quarters, or that the blacks' real problem in South Africa is not that they are always having babies...
Mountain climbing pits the individual against the mountain, not you-the-man or you-the-woman but simply you the individual. By setting themselves apart, the Annapurna team typed themselves as you-the-woman climbers. And by going alone they only succeeded in defeating their own purpose...
...full, productive lives. Although they were inferior in status to men, the argument goes, they worked so hard that they didn't have time to worry about it. The post-industrial romanticist maintains that women should remain in the home as before. But the authors argue that gradually the woman becomes an ornament, left with an unproductive, circumscribed life...
...such modesty merely adds charm to the center of an offensive powerhouse that includes co-captain Julie Brynteson, speedster Ellen Hart and explosive Cat Ferrante. Her humility disarms any jealousy you could have for the player whose scoring potency has made her a media attraction, the Ivy woman athlete of the week in mid-October, and the lucky attacker who'll go down in the record books as having scored both goals in Harvard's historic 2-0 shutout of Brown in the fourth game of the 1978 season...