Word: schoolmarms
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Sheriff vs. Schoolmarm...
...college basketball teams are certain shades of gray, Georgetown at least seems as light as its pewter uniform. An academic coordinator, Mary Fenlon, holds the rank of assistant coach and sits on the bench looking like a cross schoolmarm. Though 7-ft. Center Patrick Ewing regularly says "we was" and "they was," he must be learning something. Senior Guard Fred Brown is asked if the championship makes him feel complete, and he replies thoughtfully, "No, I still have to get my degree." Without irony, Brown says he envisions a career in the FBI, the CIA or the Secret Service...
Lemann remembered Fickett as the "ideal of the New England schoolmarm" personality, with her "downeast" appearance and voice. Even in the hot summer, Lemann said, she would go into the business office "in her schoolmarm clothes," open the sliding wooden window and "not let anything phase...
...Chief Justice's right was the senior Justice, William Brennan, 76, back from his Nantucket summer home, his lively eyes on full alert behind his spectacles. The court's junior member, Sandra Day O'Connor, fresh from an African safari vacation, looked stern as a schoolmarm as the first hopeful lawyer began to argue his case. The 1982-83 term of the U.S. Supreme Court was under way, and for all the normality of its start, the year promises a work load that will leave the Justices physically and mentally spent come the usual Fourth of July...
...matters of morals, dead set against birth control, abortion, and sex for pleasure, even in marriage. "She could sometimes be difficult to deal with," William D. Miller, her respectful biographer, remarks with characteristic discretion. Yet there was still a curiously romantic side to her. Despite her angular body and schoolmarm demeanor, men fell in love with her into...