Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since the women's movement began sneering at Miss America, the pageant has been nervous, trying to keep traditionalists content while courting the interest of modern young women. Some ambiguity is inevitable. Christine is liberated by any standard, adamant that the public perceive her as a "woman who can take care of herself." When a reporter asks for her vital statistics, she looks him square in the eye and says, "I don't know. I don't even know how much I weigh." But she slips into the word "girls" when lapsing into pageant talk...
...first trial that anyone could remember in which a woman had been prosecuted for self-abortion. And the case was symptomatic of the confusion that has developed over the widely differing abortion laws that have been enacted by states and localities in the past few years. Kentucky law is particularly tricky: the state permits abortions to be performed during the second trimester but after 18 weeks it is virtually impossible to get anyone to perform the operation...
...Visiting Matagalpa shortly after the attack, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich found the hospitals filled with wounded. At least 17 people were dead. Many residents had fled the city, but those who remained were defiant. "We know they are going to bomb us again," said an elderly woman. "It shows what a barbaric regime we are living under...
...search of factory jobs in the cities. For most, the effort has been futile. Lacking skills and education, they have settled for poverty-level employment at best-and in all too many instances, no job at all. By working ten hours a day, six days a week, an ambitious woman might earn about $75 per month, scarcely enough to survive in a wooden and tin-can hovel, let alone support her children. At the same time, the peasants contribute endlessly to a stunningly high birth rate (37.1 per thousand). Thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like...
...Dame Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova, Nagy is now planning to retire from the American Ballet Theater before weary leg muscles make him earthbound. Pouts Makarova: "He is the most lyrical dancer, and I will miss him." What will Nagy miss the most? "When I am dancing with a woman onstage and it works, I feel that I love her, and that sort of love simply does not exist offstage...