Word: chairwoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These men must be out of their minds. How could they think of turning us women, who are their best clients, into their bitterest enemies...
...made it the kind of blast Elsa would have liked. The theme was Une Nuit sur la Côte d'Azur, in honor of the old girl's favorite playground, and Cannes' Whisky à GoGo discothèque was faithfully reproduced while French-born Decorations Chairwoman Jeanine Levitt looked like an ondine from the Riviera in a sapphire-studded Griffe and a peacock blue...
Rising Offensive. By short-term accounting, boycotts have won nothing whatever. The Boston boycott last June was sparked by the refusal of the city's school-committee chairwoman even to recognize the existence of segregation. Result: whites overwhelmingly re-elected her last November. Chicago's huge (225,000 absentees) boycott last fall was aimed, for similar reasons, at removing School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis. Result: white-supported Willis is stronger than ever. New York's boycott protested the supposed shortcomings of the schools' extensive new integration plan. Result: the plan stands unchanged...
Often illustrating her points with personal anecdotes, Mrs. Roosevelt urged her attentive audience to work actively for democracy. She had long taken part self in a multitude of activities, serving as a U.N. delegate and as chairwoman of the U.N. commission on human rights and President Kennedy's commission on the status of women...
Suddenly, however, the charming garden club women turn inexplicably into Chinese and Russian scientists at a secret meeting in Manchuria, and when the hydrangea-lovers reappear moments later, the chairwoman is no longer speaking on flowers. She is asking the head of the American patrol to murder two of his men. "Yes ma'am," he replies politely, and obviously anxious to please his hostesses, he strangles one (with a scarf thoughtfully provided by a woman in the audience) and shoots the other in the forehead. The sweet ladies of the garden club applaud his performance enthusiastically...