Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign summer of 1960, a century after Lizzie Stanton's declamation and 40 years after the 19th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of sex, the emancipated women of the U.S. are far from ridiculous. They form the largest single element in the American electorate (56.1 million women of voting age v. 52.7 million eligible men). Next Nov. 8 will very likely go down in history as Ladies' Day, with women voters outnumbering men for the first time in any peacetime presidential election. Both presidential candidates and their wives are coolly judged for their sex appeal (consensus...
...esteem of her colleagues and the nation for her diligence, independence and courage. In 23 years on Capitol Hill, as her late husband's secretary, as his successor in the House of Representatives, and as the second woman ever elected to the Senate, Maggie Smith has served her sex, her state and the U.S. with distinction...
Summing up his survey, Professor Thun rates aggressive and destructive tendencies as first in the child's garden of evil, followed by thievery, sex ("pulling down your pants in front of other children"), sacrilege ("calling God a dope"), disobedience and, lastly, that mysterious entity known as Grown-Up Sins...
...lives that would be sorry farces if they were not sadder truths. Moore's Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne worried an old maid's wasted years in cruel whispers. In The Feast of Lupercal, he basted a 37-year-old virgin schoolmaster who knew less of sex than his students. While its plot is more forced than forceful, The Luck of Ginger Coffey dyes its boy-man hero in the rich Moore pigments of humor, poignance and irony...
Besides these disparities among state laws, Ploscowe is bothered "by the gulf between the laws and what he thinks are the prevailing U.S. patterns of sexual behavior as shown by Kinsey-type reports. "Sex offense legislation presently on the books," says Ploscowe, "is largely unenforceable, and much of this legislation does a great deal more harm than good. Few branches of the law have shown such a wide divergence between actual human behavior and stated legal norms...