Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room cabin overlooking the Pacific. I warmed to her immediately, more spontaneously than I have reacted to anyone in months. The New Republic, lying next to a jar of honey on a checkered table cloth, made me laugh inwardly. But at the same time, I became defensive because this woman had done what I often dream of but will never do: dropped out of a respectable Eastern college. I borrowed her phone--only one family in the valley has one--and called the friend I would rejoin in San Francisco the next afternoon. The two women laughed as I prattled...
...left Dugton at his mother's insistence, Jed never returns during her lifetime. Her death brings him back home again, to sleep in his old bed and listen to his stepfather's reminiscences. In a deeply moving passage, he joins his stepfather in a rite of appreciation for the woman who urged him to deny his past...
...effort to resolve the tensions that have spilt the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club all semester, Robert L. Wiley '78 resigned this week from the club's presidency. In his place, the club elected Patrice M. Kenney '79, the group's first woman president...
...stand by their men. Sometimes, when the men sit, they stand up for them. Two are especially outstanding--Sudy Crusenberry and Lois Scott. Crusenberry is stringy, with a long horsey face; she looks like the breaking up of a hard winter. Scott is gregarious, aggressive, and big--a tough woman. At one point she laughs and reaches into her prodigious bosom and comes up with a Colt .32, and, still laughing, replaces it. You get the idea she'd use it. The power struggle between the two is glossed over, but Crusenberry becomes the leader of the women. When...
...Springfield State College woman's track team utilized both superior talent and depth to decisively defeat Radcliffe yesterday...