Word: womanizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Davidson otherwise has come to several conclusions about them as a group. Most are male, and their principal language is Hebrew-one reason, perhaps, why 11,000 angels are alleged to guard every Jew. Davidson, of course, also knows whom to send to the aid of any woman who happens to have her garter stolen-Nergal, chief of hell's secret police...
...woman rests content, once a dress catches her eye, until she has actually tried it on and examined it from every angle. Some women even insist on trying on outrageously wrong clothes just for the hang of it. As a result, lines queue up before dressing booths, coiffures become disarranged, clothes quickly become shopworn...
...rear-projection. By pushing a button, she can then flash slides of a store's collection, each dress in her own size, onto the mirror beneath the reflection of her face, discovering in seconds whether or not the particular color, neckline and shape suits her. A decisive woman could "try on" as many as 150 dresses in 15 minutes before the mirror, reducing subsequent actual tryons to the handful of clothes that she really likes...
Grudging Desegregation. Said a woman at Louisville Memorial Hospital: "Without Medicare, I'd probably have stayed home to die. There's no other way I could afford this care." Says Walter Parrish, 68, of Marysville, Calif.: "I was against Medicare at first-sounded too much like socialism. Then last year I was in the hospital for ten days with a bill of over $700, and-again this year for 23 days. Now I know what it costs to be sick...
...most readers knew, S. Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs might have been creatures of the Nobel committee's imagination. Placing Agnon was easier: he turned out to be Israel's top novelist. But Nelly Sachs was a poser: A Jewish woman poet of 75 who wrote in German and lived (as she still does) in Sweden. Had the academy simply decided that it was the turn of Jewish writers? Did it already have in the wings an unsung Arab for the next time around...