Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Bush says a woman should be able to get an abortion when she has been the victim of rape or incest. Yet the President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound...
Baker, as author Phyllis Rose observes in this elegant, judicious biography, actually "had little subtlety and less angst." Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to a few paternalistic men who meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America...
...with no electricity or running water, rotting walls papered with newsprint, and gaping holes in the tin roof that allowed the rain to pour through. "Once a snake came up under the stove, and we got big rats in there all the time," recalled Anderson, 47, a big, strapping woman in a flowered blouse. "I couldn't wait to get away...
...Sister Grace, a conservatively dressed woman with gentle blue eyes and short brown hair, helping the poor has been a lifelong ambition. As a child growing up in New York City, she wanted to aid leprosy sufferers in India. She never made it to Asia, but in 1973 her Philadelphia-based religious order, Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, sent her to the Deep South. "I never dreamed that I'd be working with septic tanks, wiring, let alone moving houses," she says, "but when people are poor and depressed, you want to do anything you can to uplift...
...other workers at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co., a boutique coffee shop, ran out when the walls began to tumble, but one employee remained behind. "I heard a quick scream to my right, where she was," Barnes recalled. "I know she's in there." Friends of the missing woman held hands, weeping and calling out her name, as rescuers probed through the shambles. Finally convinced she could not have survived, they gave up late Tuesday night. That was too soon for the woman's friends, who taunted and pushed the workers, pleading with them to look again. They threatened...