Word: womanned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...woman behind me screamed. I turned around as she fell to her knees clutching her face. I pulled her up, urging, "Run, you've got to run." Twenty feet away a medic met us and pushed her down. I yanked her head back and forced open her eyes so he could rinse them with boric acid. She was still screaming and clawing with her arms when the cops came up. "We're helping her," I screamed at them. "She's hurt." With his nightstick in his other hand the National Guardsman pushed at her back. We grabbed...
...face with Mace. Again I stumbled frantically forward, trying to get away from the clubs and the cops. The same medic found me and pulled me into the woods. As he rinsed my eyes, he yelled at the people around me "I told you to get this woman out of here, get her out of here...
Each affinity group of a dozen or so friends sent one spokesperson to each meeting. Only the spokesperson could vote. A man and woman lead each meeting, and the positions rotated. Hierarchy was avoided; charismatic leadership squelched. It was invigorating to be a part of this form of decision-making. Each spokesperson had a right to be heard, and each man and woman were respected equally...
...Clockwork Orange) McDowell exhibits a first-rate change-up. Even more surprising is Mary Steenburgen as the junior bank officer who converts both the Ripper's and Wells' antique pounds into dollars and is thus the crucial link in their chase. Her portrayal of a liberated woman fighting and loving in two centuries is a unique amalgam of vulnerability and slow-spoken shrewdness...
...ready with a stiff-upper-lip comment. Says one American general in Germany: "It has never impacted on readiness." Rear Admiral Hogg thinks the Navy is just as shipshape with mothers on board. Says he: "The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a woman...