Word: veil
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prove our age. Inside the gate, brightly dressed revelers tripped down the clean streets. Mosquitoes were everywhere, as were, we realized, bachelorette parties: flocks of heavily made-up women trying hard to get another woman, identical to them except for her painfully nervous manners and lace veil, as intoxicated as possible...
...public. Yet 565 women candidates have had their photos placed on the ballots, even though they have to go to extraordinary lengths to get their messages across. More than one candidate in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar is campaigning door-to-door in a burqa, the head-to-toe veil that conceals even the face...
...crisis peels away the veil that often covers the inequities in a society. And that’s what this hurricane has done. It’s peeled away the screen that hid the poverty of the ninth ward from people who went down on spring break to Bourbon Street,” said University of Michigan Professor of History and Professor of Law Rebecca Scott...
...Pages in an appellate ruling that upheld Florida's revocation of the driver's license of a Muslim who refused to be photographed without her veil...
...mullahs overrun the valley, women are ordered to wear the veil and Muslims are separated from Hindus. This Islamic brutality is reciprocated by the Indian army, which destroys villages suspected of harboring terrorists. The mullahs and the army take turns in grinding paradise into hell, and Rushdie chronicles their misdeeds with mounting anger. As he recalls the violence that forced the Hindus out of the Kashmir valley in the 1990s, words gush out of him in a reflux of rage: "... and the pandits of Kashmir were left to rot in their slum camps, to rot while the army and insurgency...