Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aftershocks & Quagmires. The search for victims continued for long, wearying hours. A seven-year-old girl was pulled out alive after more than two days in the wreckage of her home -though later she died of her injuries. The rescue of a 104-year-old woman ended in the same way: dug out from the debris, she succumbed on the way to a hospital. In Gibellina, the dead were piled on top of mossy sandstone tombs in the town cemetery...
JOURNEY INTO THE WHIRLWIND, by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. The horrors of Stalin's slave-labor camps are recalled with painful intensity by a woman who was a prisoner for 17 years...
Even so, Granite State voters are traditionally suspect of "outlanders." When Romney accosted a woman in a Persian lamb coat in frosty Manchester (pop. 93,700), she peered at him sharply and asked: "Who are you?" "I'm the Governor of the state of Michigan," he replied. She walked away unimpressed. It will require all of George Romney's considerable campaigning skill to overcome that sort of skepticism-and much more vigor to pursue the presidency beyond New Hampshire...
...government's case. Several petitions circulated, demanding "a full public airing" at the trial. Crowds gathered outside the courtroom, yelling, shoving and needling security guards. But Soviet justice pays scant heed to public opinion. After a five-day closed trial, the judge sentenced the three men and a woman to labor camps for terms ranging from one to seven years...
...character man-woman play is now a Broadway staple. Lawrence Holofcener's Before You Go ranks with Two for the Seesaw and The Owl and the Pussycat as the best of the genre. Wry, perceptive, honest, sad, funny and tender, it is compassionately discerning about two people who are not quite wise to themselves...