Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mormon church [Dec. 17]? I know of no other lobbyists who are described as such, not even the military. It conjures in the mind a huge Amazon, flailing her arms about, mowing down Congressmen, state legislators, press people and presidential candidates. Could this be another putdown, like "the little woman...
...villagers of Rae Bareli in the state of Uttar Pradesh, the vigorous woman in the beige sari electioneering under a roadside arbor was a haunting apparition from India's political past. Raising an orange-colored bullhorn, she repeated her blunt and simple slogan: "Banish poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly...
Best Sitcom: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which, beginning in 1970, provided seven seasons of sophisticated humor and showed a woman succeeding in what was once a man's job. The Game Is On: ABC took long odds by introducing sport to prime time in 1970 with Monday Night Football. Since then just about everything except golf has been played at night, doubling in a decade, to nearly 1,400 hours in 1979, the amount of sport on network TV and giving the fans World Series games played in arctic conditions and, of course, Thursday Night Football...
...Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston: musings about growing up Chinese and female in America...