Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 to her husband-and, if he feels...
From the brewery-where they found stacks of leftover ballots marked for Rhee's running mate, 63-year-old Vice President-elect Lee Ki Poong-the rioters moved on to Masan's police headquarters, smashed through a police cordon and wrecked the station. When Masan's police chief came driving up, infuriated women set fire to his Jeep and beat him so badly that at week's end he was still in a coma. For the next two days, the students of Masan paraded ceaselessly through town bearing placards that read "Down with Fraudulent Elections...
...Democratic bosses and kingmakers (most of them Catholics, some decidedly cool to Kennedy) in a dilemma: if they do not nominate him, the Democrats stand to alienate the Catholic vote-a situation that Vice President Nixon might be tempted to exploit by turning to a Catholic vice-presidential running mate, such as Labor Secretary James Mitchell...
...Finsterwald, 30. Finsterwald, with a 69 for the first round and a 70 for the second, would have been a stroke ahead of Palmer. But after sinking a second-day putt, he started to take a practice putt on the same green. He was reminded by his playing mate, Billy Casper, that it was illegal-and he thereupon told officials that he had unwittingly broken the same rule the day before. The penalty: two strokes...
...influence Nixon's choice, and the chances of Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, a Catholic, would be enhanced. Or, if Dick Nixon decides that a progressive-conservative balance is the magic combination, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, a conservative in excellent standing, would be a logical running mate...