Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a car following the truck stepped Mrs. Coffey herself, a grey-haired, motherly woman of 55, in a lacy black hat. She was ready to speak a few words, but found no crowd. "Ain't many Democrats around here," explained the postmistress. "I'm one." Candidate Coffey bleakly drank a Coca-Cola, then moved...
Total catch of oysters this year is estimated at 11,500,000, or only one-quarter oyster for every man, woman & child in Great Britain. There is a shortage, blamed on the weather and U.S. invaders. The big freeze in 1947 damaged the beds in the heart of the oyster country at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex. Senior Naturalist Knight Jones of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries reported ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells...
...American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols in front of a mansion. A blase woman dripping in furs brushes half of them off and asks the butler to sweep the rest away. Then she pours herself a large shot of liquor. Tito nudged me. "Whisky!" he said...
...morning last week, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, still smoking his after-breakfast cigarette, stepped briskly out of his apartment house on Ottawa's Elgin Street and walked toward his office on Parliament Hill. To a woman passer-by who smiled at him St. Laurent doffed his Panama. A grinning, unshaven drunk gave him a grandiose wave, got a nod in return. At a busy intersection, a policeman directing traffic kept him waiting at the curb while two streetcars rumbled by. In the five-block walk, only half a dozen Canadians saluted their handsome, 67-year-old Prime Minister...
What makes a man manly or a woman womanly-or vice versa? Many homosexuals are living proof that physical organs alone are not decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in men, estradiol in women) were discovered, many physicians decided that hormones must be the agents which determine sexual behavior. In recent years, tens of thousands of effeminate males and masculine females have been given shots of one or the other...