Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect Harvard from awarding degrees to possibly undesirable people, all those recommended for honoraries must pass a triple test. A special standing committee of the Corporation, established in 1881, meets during the year to judge the qualifications of outstanding men and women. (Some people have tried to promote themselves directly as worthy recipients of doctorates, but as far as one expert upon honoraries knows, no such effort has ever succeeded.) The President of the University may direct suggestions to the committee, but the committee alone can make recommendations for further consideration...
...declared the troubled province of Buganda a "disturbed area," decreed emergency police powers, and banned the U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...
Well, almost himself. Billy Bailey is 73 and runs Singapore's Coconut Grove, an obscure and homey bar (no unescorted women allowed) next door to a Buddhist nunnery on Singapore's Cuppage Road. A guitar keeps the air moving. The drinks are on the level, and the talk is good, since Iowa-born, ex-Vaudevillian Bailey does most...
There are also doubts about transparent packages, one of the star attractions of the supermarket. In a four-week test in Eastern supermarkets, grocers were surprised to find that shoppers bought more women's and children's socks, pants and other soft goods packaged in the old-fashioned cardboard containers. There also was less stealing...
...John Bottomley is clearly derived from John P. Marquand. He is handsome but not terribly bright, brimful of ideals that make life difficult for him. Though often obstinate, he is invariably polite, and when older men say something nauseous, he answers "Yes, sir" in a mildly disapproving tone. When women quarrel, he never understands that they are quarreling about him. The girls are pure Marquand, too. always prattling merrily about nothing while the men brood, and when noble-souled John says something portentous to them, they respond with irrelevancies-"You need a haircut...