Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complement this athletic prowess on the ice, Trotman has demonstrated such skill and mental agility on the water that she was voted the 1987-1988 Outstanding Woman Collegiate Sailor. Other accomplishments include winning the New England Single-Handed Championships in 1987 and 1988, winning the Women's Nationals and competing in the World Championships...
...spoke, and the sharp tugs on his sleeve when she wanted him to stop, gave her away as first among her husband's handlers. Bush aides quickly learned that behind her demure shirtwaist dresses and her trademark Mary Tyler Moore flip hairdo there was a strong-minded, intelligent woman who wished to be viewed as Quayle's "senior adviser...
...more than a change of Zip Codes. As she puts color-coded stickers on the furniture and pictures to signify what goes, what stays and what gets tossed out in this latest move, she is already nostalgic over life as Second Lady. "I got away with murder," says the woman who allowed as how Nancy Reagan should have simply replaced the White House china a piece at a time instead of buying a whole new set, and who suggested that her husband strip down to disprove rumors that he was wounded during a tryst. As she prepares...
...when the concept of First Lady seems like a stuffy anachronism, Barbara Bush may prove to be the right woman in the right place. She has projects -- literacy, cancer research, education -- that predate her husband's bug for politics. As she heads for 64, with no regrets about having poured her energies into raising her family, she seems to have enough heart left over to suffer fools gladly. Years of good works behind her, she is the embodiment of the kinder, gentler world that her husband so gauzily evoked during the campaign...
...appropriate label for Geraldine Ferraro. She can cut off an interview with a wave of the hand, having been burned once too often by those who talk sweetly but interview harshly (as when Jane Pauley asked her, "Your husband is a man of the '80s, and you're a woman of the '40s. What do you say to that...