Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next night, in the patio of Tangier's casbah, a lissome girl in a shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years...
Black Skirts, Pink Toenails. Today, at 27, Princess Aisha is a deep-breasted, wide-hipped, volatile young woman who can look one moment as serene and majestic as Nefertiti, and the next as disorganized and disheveled as a college girl at exam time. Her villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim...
Mohammed was a reformer as well as a moral philosopher. By the standards of his times, he was in fact an emancipator of women. He actually outlawed some of the excesses that existed before his time, e.g., unlimited polygamy, the infanticide of girl babies,* and there is evidence that he would have pressed for further freedoms for women, had the social and political climate of his time permitted it. One reason for his permitting men to take four wives was probably the fact that since his legions put their male enemies to the sword, Mohammed felt responsible for the surviving...
...five girls, one was Joan Bart, a Radcliffe graduate student in Harvard's Russian Studies Program. A 19-year-old girl from the University of Michigan, an 18-year-old student from Scripps College, Calif., who had lived all her life on a cattle ranch, and two working girls who had attended Smith and Mount Holyoke completed the group...
...going to travel some and become successful and then marry this other girl." Mrs. Star paused. "Now what did you really come to see me about...