Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading what Mrs. Holstein "cooked" for her 14 guests, I think a woman would have to go out to work to pay her food bill! If more women would try making pea soup with a ham bone instead of buying it in can, there wouldn't be so much griping about not being able to make ends meet. MRS. FRANTZ Levittown...
...tension in Windhoek mounted, a beer-hall picket knocked over a can of malt beer that had just been bought by a woman customer. The woman called the police. Within minutes, police and an angry crowd of several thousand were scuffling. The blacks set the beer hall on fire, stormed the city jail, and freed all the prisoners. Some even dared the soldiers and police to shoot them, taunted, "You are too frightened by the United Nations." The soldiers and police obliged: by the end of the day, twelve Africans had been shot to death...
...MIDDLE AGE OF MRS. ELIOT, by Angus Wilson. The freshly widowed heroine tries to find a career and a woman's card of identity; all she seems to turn up is welfare-state boredom and ineffectually Angry Young Men, many of whom are not men at all. Author Wilson, his fine style dipped in malice, deftly destroys whole chunks of English society...
ELIZABETH THE GREAT, by Elizabeth Jenkins. A string of brilliant miniatures of the Queen who said of herself: "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king...
...Woman! (CBS, 4-5 p.m.).* "You Can't Raise Children by the Book" attempts to make that point through a guided tour of the Yale Child Study Center...