Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth McKinsey '70 then gave Edmonds her medal and citation, calling her "a renaissance woman of our times...
Blacks should have been more concerned about Willie Horton the criminal. He escaped from prison and tortured a married couple, raping the woman several times and repeatedly pistol-whipping her husband. I'm less concerned with his color than with his actions and the program that allowed him to escape. Nonetheless, many people believe that this series of ads led to the increased racial voting around the country...
...pointed query: "Is there any question in anybody's mind that this man is not only a thief but a scoundrel?" After defense attorneys began compiling Portell's history, the DEA removed him from its payroll. Guzman, who returns to court this week, may not be the last woman to fall for the dashing Don Juan. But she may be the last one he turns into a suspect statistic in the war on drugs...
Simon Brett specializes in what mystery fans call "the cozy," a story in which most of the mayhem is discreetly offstage, and the detective is more likely to be a canny old woman than a boozy middle-aged man. Of the many imitations of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, none has been quite so slippery and criminous as Melita Pargeter, a white-haired, well-heeled widow of a burglar whom Brett beguilingly introduced in 1987's A Nice Class of Corpse. Having skewered the pretenses of her fellow residents of a retirement hotel in that volume, she returns...
...African-American family has been middle class since the 1700s and deeply involved in the fight for black equality. You brilliantly describe what it feels like to make $150,000 a year, pay high taxes and yet have a white woman in a supermarket line who assumes you are on welfare turn to her husband and say of the porterhouse steak in your basket, "Thanks to us, see what they can afford?" This piece should be required reading for every American...