Word: women
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...August or to find him guilty of first-degree murder, with a mandatory life sentence. The judge reasoned that the prosecution's contentions ruled out manslaughter or second-degree murder. The all-or-nothing choice, however, made conviction more difficult. After two hours and 50 minutes, the eleven women and one man voted for acquittal. Pollard's mother, Rebecca, wept bitterly: "I didn't look for them to find him guilty. All whites stick together...
From the beginning, the issues in the Charleston, S.C., hospital strike have been union recognition and official intransigence. For three months the walkout by 360 black workers-most of them women of limited skills earning only $1.30 to $1.60 per hour-has disrupted the gracious antebellum city with the threat of racial violence...
...volunteer workers to spread his message. Three-quarters of the city's 796-man police force helped. The Rev. Joseph Head, former national chaplain of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, summed up the winner's appeal: "Our community is plagued by militants, beating up kids, raping women. Somebody had to take over...
...happens to lose his head over a girl younger than you, can leave the house, ask for a separation and after five years move on to a new marriage whether you like it or not." One group unimpressed by such arguments: Italy's 500,000 "white widows," women whose husbands went to other countries to work, got divorced and remarried abroad, leaving them helpless under the law to start new married lives of their...
Gaelic folk legend is a long chain of deceptions and false appearances-gods turning into dwarfs, dwarfs turning into cats and, above all, beautiful women turning into death-dealing hags. The outcome of these tales was that the gods were usually razzed, the lowly were usually razzed too, and sex was made to look grotesque. Not so different from other people's legends perhaps, except in their very high quotient of mockery; but Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it, has decreed a strange long life to them. The gods turned eventually into English landlords...