Word: womanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Patricia Szymczak was 36 years old when she decided to pursue a quest she had contemplated since childhood: finding her mother. Adopted in infancy, Szymczak, a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, attacked the task as if on deadline. She knew the woman's name and hometown from a 1953 Illinois adoption decree, obtained when she turned 18 from her adoptive mother. Szymczak called the local post office, found a retired mailman and got him talking about the family -- her family. She contacted old neighbors, who led her to friends. Some had seen the woman, who now lived out of state...
...before tremulously placing the call, Szymczak journeyed to the tiny public library in her mother's hometown 300 miles from Chicago. "My fantasy," she explains, "was to open a high school yearbook and see a woman who looked like me." On page 15 of the 1952 yearbook, Szymczak's fantasy came true. The smile was the same one Szymczak saw in the mirror; the graduation quote: "I'm just the girl you're looking for." The long search ended with a three-hour call from a pay phone. By the end of the conversation, it was after midnight...
...image of a strong woman involved in confused love dominates the album. Etheridge's lyrics, however, more or less succeed in skirting the rocks of love cliches, and she hits home with lines like "Am I the snake inside your garden, the sugar in your tea, the knock upon your backdoor, the twist that turns your...
...telling us that Black students cannot be near Harvard University?" one woman asked derisively at Tuesday's vigil, stretching out each syllable for emphasis...
Although the Fly Club has insisted that Schkolnick's complaint has no merit because she never sought admission to the club, Baker's brief concudes, "There is no mechanism by which any woman could ever apply or otherwise be considered for membership...