Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents still cling to tribalism, they may sell her into marriage with whatever man offers the highest bride price-usually so many head of cattle. Should the husband at any time grow tired of her, he can send her home and demand back his cows. In some parts of the country, she must bear her mate three children before the union becomes binding. In other districts, if her husband dies she will be handed on to his heir. Whatever money or property he leaves is disposed of by the head of the family, but whatever money she herself earns belongs...
...Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
Leap Year. In London, after Michael Moore, 33, serving four years for burglary, was allowed out of his Pentonville Prison cell to marry Hazel Dunphey in a nearby church, he went through the ceremony with two police escorts watching, signed the register, kissed his bride, dashed up the aisle and escaped...
...Carolina. But Granny could do little to halt issuance of a marriage license to the couple in North Carolina, where they then journeyed. Technically, Andrei had run off with the ward of a Manhattan court, but. armed with proof of his very recent Mexican divorce. Porumbeanu made "Gambi" his bride. At that point, Grandma Benedict gave up the fight, said she was washing her hands of the pair...
...Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring on Birgit's finger. Recently back from Egypt, he was asked how much Birgit would fetch on the bride market there. Replied he: "A thousand pounds and 100 camels...