Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exploded with bits of glass and blood. We thought everyone was dead," he recalled. Lackily, Mrs. Fuller and her baby suffered only minor cuts. Police Sergeant Ken Hargrove told of a headless and legless male torso still strapped to an aircraft seat, with shirt and tie intact. An eIderly woman trembled as she recalled seeing "a man's hand and another part of a body lying on my street...
...muted by setting. Columnist Rowland Evans looking serious. Came to town under F.D.R. New Republic's John Osborne looming like Buddha at far end of five bouquets. Carter Aide Jerry Rafshoon looking pale. Been watching TV too much. Meet the Press's originator Lawrence Spivak smiling. Lone Woman Mary McGrory wants to know if she and the rest have been too tough on President. President believes so now and then, but is not going to press point in new aura. Jimmy has to leave. Everybody lingers second or two savoring mellow mood, Americans all. Know it will...
...SEPARATE PEACE lasted only until an unbelievably huge woman heaved herself into the adjacent booth, gingerly followed by two relatively normal-sized girl friends. As they began talking, the two ordinary women grew more and more nervous. At the end of what must have been the thousandth disastrous Friday night of the fat girl's life, they compared notes about their dates. The seat began rocking violently like a small boat in a large storm as the fat girl became more and more agitated; in between gulps of food and drink she threw her body from side to side...
Gray might have been Yale's first woman president, Rosovsky the first Jewish one. It was apparent that Giamatti was not the Corporation's first choice, but with his Italian heritage, the English professor fit the bill well. Giamatti accepted Yale's offer with a good deal of grace and humor...
...rapid succession he loses a few others--houseboy, gas station attendant, waiter, road crew--when the white employers become displeased with him. These contacts with Afrikaaners and Britishers--who insist on being called "Boss" or something equally demeaning--are typified in this encounter with the shrewish woman who hires, then summarily fires, Zach as her houseboy...