Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman with strawberry blond hair knotted atop her head calls from a nearby stall. "You're our star. I want to shake your hand, honey. You're a celebrity. They even had you on TV." Putting out one cigarette, Smith then lights another. At 47, a short, broad-shouldered man in tan dungarees, he has the look of someone who could have spent his life punching in at an automobile plant or a paint factory. But Smith is a celebrity because the assembly lines he manned produced goods made of plutonium, a radioactive element so deadly that even microscopic doses...
Particularly in rural areas, people sometimes seemed confused about what the election was all about. At the polling place in one town near the Mozambique border, a woman said: "We were told by the police that we had to come here, and we didn't argue. We just came." Others had a better understanding. Said Jonah Dangaremdizi, a villager: "This is the first time we have voted, so it is natural that some of us are nervous. Peace is really what we want." Solomon Mauura, a chiefs messenger, was more explicit about his expectations: "We have had the war because...
...away. "We kept running the whole night and the next day. We were afraid they would come after us and kill us." They walked for two weeks until they arrived in Salisbury, still in pajamas. "People were laughing at me because they thought I was crazy. A European [white] woman stopped me and asked why I was wearing a nightie in town. That was the first time I cried. She gave me her shirt...
...that this is what the political parties were all about. We only had to encourage the people against intimidation. We didn't have to urge them to vote, vote, vote. I went to one area five days after the guerrillas had killed five people only two miles away. A woman said, "They killed our people, they are telling us not to vote, but we are going to vote." That is the spirit that is triumphant...
Jennifer Notking convincingly portrays Ellie Dunn's emergence from a shy, naive girl into a coy and sophisticated woman who then recants her decision to marry Mangan solely for his money. Instead, she falls for the 88-year-old Shotover, displaying an unexpected maturity and the mysterious allure of a siren...