Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...Strangled City. The two immaculately uniformed Russian officers stared down expressionlessly from their high official bench at the small woman in navy blue who spoke to the assembly. She was Berlin's Mayoress, grey-haired, matronly, bespectacled Louise Schroeder; and her hands gripped the rostrum firmly. She attacked the restrictions on transportation within Berlin and on the shipment of packages to the Western zones. Prosaic issues? Yes-but they involved orders of the Russian occupying army...
...Diplomatic Echo. It takes Annedore Leber, a nervy, auburn-haired woman of 44, to jar the Soviet delegate from his posturing. She is a Social Democrat, an editor of the newspaper Telegraf; her husband gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people...
Harvard had a brand-new $250,000 chair in anything-at-all on one brand-new condition: a woman had to sit in it. The gift, with string attached, came from United Fruit Co.'s President Samuel Zemurray, no Harvardman himself. A committee of Harvard professors, representing departments from fine arts to physics, solemnly scoured all available corridors of learning for a suitable candidate. They finally found her in England: Dr. Helen Maud Cam, 62, a tweedy, vigorous history don at Cambridge (her specialty: medieval local government). She would be the first woman professor of arts & sciences in Harvard...
...Daughter (MGM) dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...