Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the moon" and "How the mighty Laika rose," the Chicago American noted: 'The Russian sputpup isn't the first dog in the sky. That honor belongs to the dog star. But we're getting too Sirius." Even Manhattan's usually long-faced Communist Daily Worker bayed in a headline...
Self-Conviction. In Versailles, France, Red Cross Worker Maryvonne Daniel. 50, married for 27 years, complained to her husband that "other girls are freer than I am; they are widows or divorcees," was sentenced to eight years in jail for trying to attain widowhood by starting a fire while husband Joseph was asleep...
...professors are the elite of Soviet society," according to the report. But the Hungarian did not agree. "The great professors in the universities, yes," he said, "but not the ordinary high school teacher." He said that in Hungary, for example, a teacher's salary is even lower than a worker...
...Life Without Wife. In India an estimated 50% of some 20 million Moslem women still cling to some form of the veil (sometimes just a bit of cotton draped over the head), but their numbers are dwindling fast. Says slim, bespectacled Mrs. Bilquis Ghuffran, a social worker who discarded her veil two years ago: "Everything will be all right in a generation." Her husband agrees: "Life is not complete if one is to leave one's wife behind in a veil." In Malaya the Sultan of Pahang was ruled out of the running to be the new nation...
...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...