Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the service. Cousin Hugh spoke harshly about the people running Plains Baptist. He described them as "anti-Carter, anti-black and full of hate." A woman who played piano for the Bottsford service was more benign. Said she: "I have no animosity toward anyone in the other church. I pray for them, and I pray...
...armored car, causing thunderous explosions that awoke sleeping villagers and brought them running into the street. Soldiers shouted, "Give up! Give up! You are surrounded!" Some of the onlookers clasped their hands in front of their eyes, afraid to look at the scene of battle. Cried one woman: "Dear God, they're all dead!" One by one, the soldiers led the four captured Moluccans from the building and forced them to lie down for a body search. At 6 o'clock the villagers saw teachers waving from an ambulance bus. Realizing that the four schoolteacher hostages were safe...
Resplendent in a powder-blue dress, her red hair immaculately coiffed, the woman of the hour flashed a dazzling smile of triumph. "The 'normal majority' have said, "Enough! Enough! Enough!' " Singer Anita Bryant told cheering supporters and newsmen in Miami Beach. "Tonight, the laws of God and the cultural values of men have been vindicated." By a smashing 2-t01 majority, the voters of Dade County had just endorsed Bryant's fervent crusade for the repeal of an ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, unemployment and public accommodations. To celebrate their victory in last week...
...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...
...understand that you cooked my breast with microwaves?" the woman angrily asked Dr. Norman Sadowsky, chief radiologist at Boston's Faulkner Hospital. Sadowsky reassured her that he had not. Yet her concern is typical of the initial response to the hospital's breast-cancer detection program. To help in the all-important early discovery of a disease that has reached epidemic levels in the U.S. (90,000 cases a year), Faulkner radiologists are using microwaves to spot breast cancers...