Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judith Richards Hope, the first woman ever appointed to the Harvard Corporation, said this week she will resign from her post at the end of the fall term...
With Hope's resignation, Gray will be the only female in the executive body, unless the search committee--composed of several members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers--selects another woman for the position...
...What Vicky likes most is the camaraderie on the job with other employees and Lowell students. "People come back and visit after they graduate; some stay on in the Senior Common Room. I remember most of them." One afternoon, a woman walked in and when Vicky saw her, she stood up, walked around her desk and the two women embraced for almost a minute. Vicky said, "That was Mrs. Bossert, the former master. She's special. There's a word for it. They were open. She used to bake everything herself for Thursday tea. She started early Wednesday...
...Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter she carries mirrors her. I'm rolling along, enjoying this joyful maternal scene as much as the passengers, when they hit me: the shoes. The little girl wears pink suede Mary Janes with the red, green, yellow and purple images of ALL FOUR Teletubbies emblazoned on the toe. No! Their...
...well-dressed 20-something delicately consuming a pastry. The girls chant "We're going to New Jersey, we're going to New Jersey." Their words fall slightly out-of-sync. They turn and begin jumping on their seats. They point at pastry and scream "New Jersey! New Jersey!" The woman eating it concentrates hard on finishing. As we turn the corner onto Mt. Auburn Street, one of the girls gets distracted by the Lowell House bell tower. "Who do they keep there?" she asks. "A princess," replies her young companion. The sight of a pigeon interrupts their fairy-tale musings...