Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police granted the demonstrators ten minutes for their rally in front of the padlocked gates, but the women and children stayed longer, causing base traffic to back up nearly a quarter mile...
...college heads, speaking "as individuals who work with young men and women," said "our military engagement in Vietnam now stands as a denial of so much that is best in our society." The letter said, "More and more, we see the war deflecting energies and resources from urgent business on our own door-step. An end to the war will not solve the problems on or off the campus. It will however permit us to work more effectively in support of more peaceful priorities...
Residents of Prague find it almost impossible to buy towels, diapers, flashlight batteries, handkerchiefs, women's underwear, sheets, pillowcases and baby carriages. The shortages have spawned a new black market, and parents now chain their baby carriages to guard against theft. Construction has slowed so drastically that of 6,000 new apartments planned for this year, fewer than 100 have been completed. Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes-a harsh step as cold weather approaches-and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries...
...resort-hopper has etched his name into the fashion lexicon of the decade. With the opening of a one-man show of silkscreens, tapestry rugs and sculptures in New York last week, Pucci, at 54, seems about to do for walls and floors what he has done for fashionable women on five continents-swathe them in splinters and swirls of color...
...novelist's sense of rhythm and construction. The plot of One Fine Day is much like an anecdote by Chekhov. A middle-aged Milanese advertising executive (Brunette Del Vita) has led a smug and comfortable life of reasonable success with his job, with his family and his women. Two intimations of death destroy this placid equilibrium: a colleague is stricken with a heart attack at a staff meeting and the executive himself accidently runs over a construction worker. The colleague recovers, and the executive is apparently acquitted of the manslaughter charge, but everything has been changed forever. The last...