Word: harem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear in the spare uniform of the harem...
...stapleages have kooky titles: Once is not Custom, Miss Brown to You, Panic in the Harem. Within a few days after the current exhibition opened at the Galerie Arnaud, more than half of Downing's compositions were sold...
...miles from King Lukengu's seat, Mbawota, 25, a royal wife since childhood and mother of one of Lukengu's many sons, threw her arms wide in joy and happily declared: "Mputukanga has guns, and the King has only spears." Emboldened by the breakup of the royal harem, the King's Bakuba subjects are holding back taxes and their traditional gifts to the king...
...small harem of his official residence in Lagos, three of the four apartments remain vacant. He has nine children by the wife he married in 1934, has never taken the other three wives allowed by Moslem...
...Harem Asylum. Author Thayer is a fascinating raconteur of diplomatic lore; he knows about the envoys who used to smuggle silk stockings for their Russian mistresses into the Soviet Union via diplomatic pouch, and about Sir Mortimer Durand, onetime British minister in Teheran, who agreed to extend political asylum to 300 dissident members of the Shah's harem. Thayer is equally enlightening about diplomatic immunity (even corpses are immune from autopsies), espionage (one of his favorites is the operative who transported his supply of invisible ink by impregnating his socks with it), the character of embassy receptionists (they...