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Word: womanities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ames is a small, beautiful woman who proctors freshmen when she is not acting. She appeared delightfully last year as the gum-chewing, breast-swinging hussy in How to Succeed in Business but she outdoes herself as Amanda. She sings her lines in a sliding Southern melody of speech, seducing with blue eyes and a wary but blooming smile. With a few early words, she captures at once Amanda's aging person but equally as well evinces her bubbling, sometimes annoying childlike penchant for story-telling...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Smash Menagerie | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Judith Shaak-the dark-haired young woman a little off to one side, whose restless, measuring eyes say teacher-this exuberant encounter between the very living and the very dead is no random happening. The little girls chasing lizards around the sandy grave of Madison Starke Perry (1814-1865), the fourth Governor of Florida, and the boys swigging Coke while making tombstone rubbings with brilliant red crayons are members of the Enrichment Class for Life and Death at the Myra Terwilliger Elementary School, now in session. And Mrs. Shaak-in her third year of leading dry runs through the Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...charmingly unassuming but determined woman, Mrs. Shaak coaxes doctors to visit the Life and Death class. The relentless children ask them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: A Life and Death Class | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...mother superior of the Society of St. Margaret in Boston. "She is a fantastic woman," said Haitian Composer Ferrere Laguerre. "Very persistent, with great persuasive powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Miracle Worker | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Although the Iranian militants released 13 black and women hostages last week "whose espionage has not been proved," they refused to release Swift and one other woman...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: The Iranian Crisis Hits Home in Cambridge | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

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