Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, hour after hour, day after day, men hunted in the wreckage for bodies. Effingham's business all but ceased. At the morgue, men & women moved with a stunned matter-of-factness-one woman, looking for her baby, stared at a small, charred body and said, "No, he was smaller" in the same tone she might have used if she were shopping. The funerals went on for days...
...women & children who had been in the hospital when the fire broke out, 74 were dead...
...afternoon, the big drill ground away. The shaft had to be lined by 24-in. casing, to prevent a cave-in. It was Saturday, and all afternoon the crowds thickened. By midnight, 12,000 were standing in the chilly spring night-grave, subdued neighbors, sightseers and dating teenagers, men & women in evening dress. In a car a little back from the scene, David Fiscus and his wife sat out their vigil. To sympathetic queries, he said wearily: "Let's not discuss it, please...
...Albanians blandly denied any responsibility. Their defense counsel, French fellow-traveler Pierre Cot, declared that Kovacic was the "dupe of two beautiful women, spies of a foreign power." Cracked one court stenographer: "How can the International Court keep its dignity when a trial gets so interesting...
Milliner Lilly Daché arrived in Manhattan with the breathless news that the women of Paris are less interested in hats than in men. The three males who crop up most in conversation when smart Parisiennes let their hair down: World Citizen Garry Davis (admired for his "courage and . . . youthful hope"), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre (for his "unsweetened approach to modern life") and British Cinemactor James Mason ("He is just the 150% man, with ego, contrariness, even cruelty...