Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were a man I wouldn't have half a dozen Tom Collinses before going out to play, then letting profanity substitute for proficiency on the golf course," said the great woman professional Patty Berg...
...dynamite or blaster, is that concave instrument for delving in golf's farflung hinterlands. Ever since Gene Sarazen built the first one during the winter of 1932 in a Florida machine shop, the wedge has been a godsend for golfers extricating themselves from places previously untrodden by man (or woman...
...group of young out-of-town women, apparent veterans of Krok concerts, clamoring for seats in the front row of Sanders. Half-way through a song in the second half, when a bearded and chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while 1400 ticketholders in the audience...
Mary, Queen of Scots was a woman's lib advocate moved not by her age, but by an internal drive to reverse the deep-seated prejudices against her sex. She wrote letters to her sister trying to impress upon her the need to be well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
While Keenan seems reasonably qualified for the post beyond his unfortunate Iranian connections, it is again depressing that the University was unable to appoint--or even, apparently, to consider--a woman or member of a minority group for the GSAS post...