Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give some measure of hope to the 70,000 girls that are born each year in Greece, King Paul and his pert, social-minded Queen Frederika have worked out a new kind of welfare-state benefit: dowries for all. Urged on by the King and Queen, 132 citizens' committees all over Greece have conducted drives to raise money for a national dowry fund. Each time 1,000 drachmas ($33.33) is added to the collection, a bank book is issued in the name of some future bride, selected at the age of one to three years by the committee from...
...illiterate louts, many of them her senior in years. At last Francesca let it be known that she was leaving the village forever. On the night before her departure, the mayor set himself up in a room just across the street from her house. All night, as the girl huddled in bed with her sister and aunt, Pietro paced back and forth. Suddenly he opened his window and shot out the street light. Francesca's aunt screamed in terror, but nothing more happened. And in the morning when Francesca, her family, and two other schoolteachers left town to make...
...mountain regions of Greece, where old traditions die hard, a girl without a dowry has about as much chance of getting a husband as a girl without a nose. The birth of a boy to a poor family is celebrated in the tavern; baby girls are greeted with laments...
Last week, as the number of dowries reached 11,500, the King and Queen themselves were busily handing them out in person at the end of a two-month tour covering 50 towns and villages. "The royal couple," said one grateful Greek, "have changed the birth of a girl from a curse to a hope...
...organization-but we have received three cards: one from a dear old lady who lasn't been to church in 50 years, one from a total stranger whom we can't reach and who won't call back, and one from a devout 15-year-old girl who faithfully attends Sunday school every week here. I've been criticized by some for not cooperating; ten of my parishioners have spoken to me about it. People are bewitched by the aura of Madison Square Garden, they are lifted by the general upsurge; then they come...