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...WELL. I can wash out forty-four pairs of socks and hang'em on the line, Y'know I can wash and iron two dozen shirts 'fore you can count from one to nine. I can slip up a great drip off along from a drippin's can, Throw it in the skillet, do the shoppin', and be back before it melts in the pan, 'Cause I'm a woman. W-O-M-A-N, let me tell you again...

Author: By Jill Curtis, | Title: The Theatregoer How To Make A Woman at the Caravan Theatre every Friday and Saturday through Nov. 1 | 10/2/1969 | See Source »

...warning was sounded. The military, henceforth, would not be able to breeze through its requests for appropriations question-free. The lengthy debate that came to an end in the vote last week bore this out. "Just remember," said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, "this is a bill that used to slip through the Senate in hours, with no real opposition. This year it took two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Until Next Time | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Binder of bonds that ne're shall slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building is Now Center for Freshman Activities The Harvard Union was Begun as Part of a Crusade for Democracy | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Despite the lid of censorship, there are those lucky students whose freshman advisors have let the magic number slip out in the course of cocktail conversation, and those doubly lucky ones, who, when told their number, found it was a good one. A smiling senior in the second category confided, "I've been group five for three years running, but I'm always able to say. "I'm smart; the College had me pegged for group...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...faced a 35-ft. downhill curler that could easily be the first of three putts. The hole, he said, "looked two miles away." Among the 12,000 onlopkers was South Africa's Gary Player, Floyd's playing partner and closest competitor, ready to take advantage of any slip. Floyd did not clutch. He calmly arranged his pudgy form over the ball and stroked it into the cup for a birdie. Admiringly, Player walked toward him and extended a congratulatory hand. The gesture was Player's tacit admission that, two holes away from the finish, Floyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Confidence Man | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

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