Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mean, wow, it is really so demoralizing," another woman added. "I read a list somewhere three feet long of people who owed over $5,000 in taxes. The thing has just pervaded the whole structure," she said, adding "It's a wonder anyone in the political arena can keep their integrity...
...left Leach traumatized for life: "That little girl and Alice were the same age ... That's what gets me." In the essay "The Most Kindest Cut of All: Vasectomy," Crews humorously plays with a castration fear. "Suppose," asks his doctor, trying to dissuade him from the operation, "the woman you wanted to marry wanted children of her own and you couldn't give them to her?" "Then obviously," replies Crews, "she'd be the wrong woman for me to marry...
...recent years European public health officials have been puzzled by a number of cholera outbreaks in areas where the disease is usually unheard of. Several such cases occurred in Czechoslovakia, Portugal and northern France; one even involved a woman, 65, who had never left her village and could not have had contact with any cholera carriers. Now a British researcher offers a novel explanation for these mysterious outbreaks. Writing in the British Journal of Hygiene, Dr. Charles Rondle and his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suggest that the cholera came, literally, out of thin...
...more seriously, the second act, when the women reappear as 23-year-olds, suffers as Ravenal tries to force more deep meanings than the revue format can sustain. Throughout the first act each character never has to be an individual. But in the second act, each woman suffers a major, almost debilitating collapse of some kind or other which is necessary to complete Ravenal's revue of women's experience. The life crisis that all the actresses suffer, however, could only be believable if complicated people were suffering them. And surely one woman out of five might have emerged from...
...woman undergraduate at Princeton University who was denied admission to the three all-male eating clubs there has filed a complaint with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights charging the clubs with sex discrimination...