Word: womaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain" Raymond Sharrieff. The F.O.I. protects its racist chief as if he were in constant danger of assassination. At each mass meeting, the F.O.I, frisks every male who attends, while "Sisters" in flowing white robes and headpieces stand inside a separate entrance (segregation by sexes also) to frisk each woman, put all potential weapons such as nail files in checking bags...
...they fell back, about 200 of the Matswanists were pinned against a wall, and would not move. The cops grabbed them one by one and hauled them away in trucks. But when they reached the rear ranks of the crowd, police saw a melancholy sight: 36 Matswanists, including one woman and a child, had been pressed back, temporarily blinded by the tear gas. Crushed against one another, they had been smothered to death against the wall...
...held up a gory picture of a Turcoman woman, demanded: "What right did they have to kill this woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...
...Room World. What the police saw was something out of the Dark Ages: a family imprisoned for more than 15 years, a woman and six children whose entire world was a large, dark room surrounded by gutters filled with filthy green water. The mother had only two clay pots for cooking, a few plates, no silverware. Candles were the only light at night; the bathroom was a hole in one wall. Wooden tables were used as beds, stacked one atop the other like double-decker berths. The man who kept his family thus imprisoned was Rafael Perez Hernandez, 54, husband...
Only Dorothy Dandridge, looking radiantly beautiful, seems to be not quite up to her dramatic chores. This is certainly her best performance to date; but, though she has captured the fierceness and passion of the woman, there is something missing of the warmth and sincerity of Bess...