Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legend which Truman loves to retell. The sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams, he said, delighted in early-morning plunges off the backyard riverbank. One morning an enterprising newspaper woman, Anne Royall, trapped President Adams in swimming, sat on his clothes and demanded an interview. In the buff and chin-deep in the water, Adams surrendered, and sounded off about the day's issues until Newshen Royall retreated with her story...
Sophie Shanks is a cheerful, God-fearing Negro woman whose only contact with luxury is her night job as a floor polisher in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. She gets home from work in the morning in time to send the eldest of her nine children off to school, and to greet husband James as he leaves their tenement flat for his job on a city garbage truck...
...Communist agitators armed with guns and clubs rode out of cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...
...town of Celldb'molk, the Reds organized a huge picnic rally. One morning 55 flower-decked trains brought 150,000 peasants. Special Organization Guards (in blue shirts and red ties) led them into the park, kept the applause going 15 minutes after Boss Rakosi himself arrived. A peasant woman kissed him on the cheek, presented him with a white lamb. Said she: "Anybody who is not going to vote for the People's Front has no more brains than this little lamb...
Veteran Diplomat Vijaya Lakshm Pandit, sister of India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and first woman ambassador to the U.S., talked to newsmen about how to be realistic in diplomacy: "You can't rely on [just] words and promises...