Word: womenfolks
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...courtroom: they looked red and, he said, "smell of urine." The operator of the Cash Store, handsome, fortyish Mrs. Virginia Varner, was called; the defense brought out that there is a beauty shop in the back of the store and, as Robison put it, "The operators there are womenfolk just like yourself...
...Sometimes he saunters to the little cemetery in the hollow to talk to his late beloved Martha, gone these 16 years. When a young Rebel officer (Doug Mc-Clure) wants to marry his pretty daughter (Rosemary Forsyth), Stewart gives the whippersnapper a little lecture on the secret of handling womenfolk...
...away with the caste system, but higher-caste Hindus still abuse the country's near 65 million Untouchables. Custom still requires them to live in the shabbiest quarter of each village and perform the most menial tasks, like gathering night soil for the fields. In many areas their womenfolk are forbidden to wear jewelry or pretty clothes of any kind. While a Moslem theater in New Delhi not long ago staged a local version of Shaw's Pygmalion, the original My Fair Lady, modern-minded Indians point out bitterly that a Hindu version would be unthinkable...
...family gather in the mansions on the old home grounds hard by Brandywine Creek in northern Delaware. Once assembled, they band themselves into little troops and march off to the several family villas and châteaux in the area to pay their respects to the waiting Du Pont womenfolk. This is an admirable rite, steeped as it is in tradition, but it has its practical side as well: there are roughly 1,600 Du Ponts in the U.S. today, and some of them might never otherwise get a chance to meet their relatives...
...womenfolk, says National Committeewoman Mary Jackson, simply "don't like" Rocky's remarriage: "Goldwater is out in front." As of now, Rocky could probably still count on New York, plus Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland...