Word: maidening
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...regularly consulted to foretell the future. On the communes, matchmakers arrange marriages and would-be bridegrooms pay traditional bride prices, although now with a socialist tinge: an industrious girl who earns many work points (on which salaries in communes are based) brings a better price than a more indolent maiden. Even in the supposedly sophisticated cities, people often visit abandoned temples to pray for the success of some endeavor...
...result, the multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.), which South Africa has fostered and supported, ran virtually unopposed. To be sure, there were four right-wing fringe parties in the race, including one white-supremist group that ran under the portrait of a flaxen-haired young maiden holding a puppy with that party's slogan: VOTE FOR HER SAKE. The South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), the U.N.-backed political movement that has been waging guerrilla warfare in the territory since 1966, refused to take part in the elections...
...Sheehan, Peter Fitzsimmons and Mark Meyer placed 1-2-3 in the mile even though it is not their regular event. McCurdy switched quarter-miler Allan Harrington and 600-yd. man Dave Frim and each won his maiden venture, Harrington with a solid 1:15.1 in the 600 and Frim with a time...
...could adopt this salutory way of thinking, you could save your money for a ski trip, you could stop giving bath oil to your maiden Aunt Sophie, you could smoke hash on the street, but noooooo! You have to go out and buy Christmas gifts for everyone and his cousin, including all those relatives you hardly even recognize, let alone well enough so that you can buy then something intelligent and semi-thoughtful...
...Crimson was devastating in its maiden venture of the season, as it completely dominated the Jeffs, allowing them only one game in nine matches...