Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women of Algeria had few privileges and fewer rights. Having promised to respect Moslem customs, the French blinked at the practice of marrying off twelve-year-old girls (the right of djebr), often to men they had never seen. In classic Koranic fashion, husbands could get rid of a wife simply by saying, "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you," or by tearing up the marriage papers ("breaking the cards," in Algerian slang). A woman had no legal rights over her children and could be cut off without a sou of alimony. Gradually, from behind innumerable veils...
...child marriages will be forbidden, and courts will rule on divorce, custody over children and alimony. Though Néfissa's bill does not outlaw polygamy, it does the next best thing: an Algerian girl will be free to say no to a man who already has a wife...
...laughter of his guests had suddenly died away, and Boris Pasternak sat disconsolately at his own 69th birthday party listening to the angry words of his wife. "How many times have I told you not to trust journalists?" she shrilled. "They are only exploiting you for personal gain. If this continues, I'll leave you." Sadly the old poet murmured, "I promise you, Zinochka"-but nothing could change the fact that just as the ugly furor over Doctor Zhivago and the Nobel Prize seemed to be fading away, something new had happened to stir things up again...
...home of a business comrade, the San Francisco Giants' Manager Bill Rigney steered off a true course. His car jumped the curb, hit a power pole. Score: a fractured collarbone and jaw for Bill, a broken hip, deep cuts on scalp and legs for wife Paula...
...Poor. Somehow it all comes through; hurt, humor, sentimentality and a touch of sidewalk cynicism survive in the pale, lined face. And somehow it all seems more real than the too-gay sex that Lilo (wife of a French marquis) flaunts like a cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo...