Word: sleeveless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Bowles finds the troubler of his peace in Catherine Knott, "a researcher for a national news magazine," whose religiosity is so intense that "even on the hottest August days when she wore a sleeveless dress, or a thin frock, she looked like a formally attired Girl Scout." Although she seems to bear a sign, "Catholic virgin at work. Do not disturb," Father Bowles fails to heed the warning. He accepts a winter rendezvous in a secluded park corner, and when Catherine slips to her knees in the snow, Father Bowles kisses her. Like a badge of shame her lipstick...
...their wives during the fasting hours, even on the lips, so long as the kiss is only "friendly" and does not "excite sexual desire." The mufti also ruled that the traditional full Arab habit has nothing to do with fasting, that it is all right for women to wear sleeveless dresses in offices during fasting hours...