Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optimists in the 1948 campaign, Edwards held Harry Truman's ear in the White House. Never one to mince words, she asked him outright to name unprecedented numbers of women to positions in his administration. At her urging, in fact, Truman was on the verge of appointing an Ohio woman judge to the Supreme Court before Chief Justice Fred Vinson nixed the idea because he felt "the boys" wouldn't be able to relax with one another when discussing cases...
...Schell got to know Chinese citizens outside the bureaucracy, and he draws their portraits with a great deal of sensitivity. There is Hsaio Ti, whose dedication to building socialism will keep him from marrying, he says, until he is at least 30. There is Yu Shao-feng, a young woman working in the factory who grows uncomfortable around the strange American. There is Comerade Hung, an agricultural specialist who has been sent down from the universities to help Tachai build up its orchards, and who isn't completely happy in his exile to the countryside. And there...
...second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous jaw typical of non-European races ... could well belong to the Semitic race . . . case doubtful...
...plucky woman speaks out about disease and death "Do not go gentle into that good night...
...well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman who had refused to discuss her cancer with her husband, she said: "The fact is, you are bearing [your illness] now, but alone, which is infinitely more painful than if shared." What to say to cancer victims? "The right thing is honesty tempered with gentleness and a caring quality which...