Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters in Night-Side, Oates' latest collection of stories, lie on the boundary between existential despair and actual insanity. They are too sick to be tragic, but they are normal enough for us to recognize ourselves in them. The heroine of "The Snowstorm," for example, is a young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been...
...while 44% said it was. This pro-abortion majority comes from men who accept it by a ratio of 52 to 41, while women still oppose it, 47 to 44. A far larger majority (64%, including 58% of all Catholics) believe that regardless of morality a woman should be legally free to have an abortion if she wants one. But a majority (58%) also agree with President Carter's view that Government funds should not be used to finance elective abortions for the poor...
...woman was apparently forced into a car outside the library on Appian Way and driven a distance, while the occupants of the car attempted to rape her. She was freed or freed herself a short time later...
...rookie star did the needed leg work on her final time around. She pulled to 15th position with 1/2 mile to go and churned past Kathy Banks of Penn State in the last 50 yards to finish as 14th fastest woman in the country...
...event included only relay races, so that a large number of swimmers could participate. Crimson mentor Stephanie Walsh arrived with a 29-woman squad, the largest contingent at the meet, but was able to enter each swimmer in at least one of the nine races...