Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being a business woman, my reading time is limited to reading in bed. As soon as TIME arrives I put it on the bedside table, and it takes me about four nights to complete-front to back. It would be my one choice if I had to give up all other magazines...
...almost six years, nearly every man, woman & child who wanted a job had a job. Last week for the first time since the early days of the war, the U.S. had its first real unemployment problems; some 3,000,000 people were out of work. So far it was not an alarming figure. Unemployment was still more a small reminder of grim times of the past than an indication of hard times just around the corner...
...fell for the line. Others, who even refused to listen to the radio broadcasts of the trial, believed in Mindszenty more strongly than ever. Said a Catholic worker: "He is my priest. The government could not have strong enough reason to bring him into court." Said a middle-aged woman: "The Primate's greatest mistake was his wrong timing in speculating on the collapse of the government." Most Hungarians were simply scared. They no longer dared publicly discuss the Mindszenty case-or any other political topic. On the Sunday before Mindszenty's sentencing, priests in their sermons avoided...
...water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward its blaze without even slowing down, enraged police and soldiers raced ridiculously after it on foot, brandishing rifles...
...Woman on the Hill. A few months ago, the Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke had little reason to count on such a triumph. Last December, when Eire passed the Republic of Ireland Act, which claimed jurisdiction over the Northern counties, Sir Basil saw a chance to bolster his own position by calling a general election. In the ordinary course of events, Northern Ireland would not have had a general election until next year. By rushing the election through on the issue of partition, Northern Ireland's position as a part of the United Kingdom would...