Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the Washington Bureau--A reporter at last Sunday's March on Washington for abortion rights, suffering from a bleeding ankle and too little sleep, was milling around the Harvard Radcliffe delegation when an unidentified woman came up to her and said, "Your foot is bleeding--you need some socks. Take these." The reporter did as instructed, but when she turned around to thank the sock-giver, the mysterious benefactor had disappeared...
...funding has not been the arboretum's only problem in recent years. About 10 years ago, a woman was attacked while jogging through the arboretum in the early morning. Security at the arboretum was subsequently increased. Today park rangers from the Boston Park District patrol the grounds on horseback and in jeep vans. Boston Police also drive through the grounds many times daily, says Jo Procter, the arboretum's public affairs oficer...
...woman running on the beach tells her female companion, "He loves me for my mind. And, he drinks Johnny Walker...
...Harvard good, Duke bad. Is that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested...
...Johnston notes, a woman athlete eager to avoid being "branded" as a lesbian may flaunt her heterosexuality, and an insensitivity "one level above homophobia" is likely to emerge...