Word: womanless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Evelyn Byrd, 67, unwarily recalled: "No woman has ever set foot on Little America . the most silent and peaceful place in the world." By the time he reached Dallas on his way to New Zealand, lady pickets awaited him. In high good humor, they waved signs protesting his womanless haven. Explorer Byrd smiled wanly...
Like their country cousins at Dartmouth, Davidson men must rely on an abundance of spirit to tide them over the womanless days before each weekend. But unlike Dartmouth, Davidson generates its spirit from within, without any aid from Demon Rum, for the college rules state that "any student found guilty of drinking alcoholic liquors, having them in his possession, or being under their influence on the campus, is dismissed...
...longer any men left in the world (as the women see it) and no more women left in the world (as the men see it). For each sex the other has suddenly disappeared, and the men & women of a world that somehow manages to be simultaneously manless and womanless are faced for the first time with the problem of how to live without each other...