Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
Barbara Jordan, Democratic Congress-woman from the 18th Congressional district of Texas--Doctor of Laws...
...Class of '81 will hold Harvard's record for the lowest male-to-female ratio ever, with 1.8 men for every woman admitted to the class...
...last to enter the building, which he did at the urging of a friend. The experience he relates was clearly jarring: he found his file in an office and read his freshman proctor's slight unfavorable and unsympathetic report on him; on the stairs, he ran into the first woman he had slept with, and they stole upstairs, but the shallowness of the chance meeting stopped them from making love; finally, Evans was teargassed, beaten over the head with a policeman's club and arrested...
Evans tries to tie his life back together, but without much success. His girlfriend during the campaign, the first woman he had been close to since college, decides to marry her old boyfriend. He feels alienated from his contemporaries in Richmond, and so leaves. As the novel ends, he finally falls asleep on a northbound train...