Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...property without the consent of her husband or father. She could not legally leave home until she was 30 (unless married), could not vote or practice law or medicine. As late as 1925, Archbishop José Mora y del Rio objected to feminine wage earning as a "North American custom...
...Issue. By age-old tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...
West Germany's patriarchal (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer journeyed last week to Cologne's Roon-Strasse and the site of a synagogue first battered by the Nazis and later demolished by Allied bombs. There, in the newly rebuilt synagogue, he observed Jewish custom by wearing a hat while taking part in the consecration ceremonies. Der Alte briefly explained his presence to the congregation, including some survivors of the mass murder of most of Cologne's Jews: "I want to show all Germans that the Federal Republic intends to be a shield of order and a haven...
...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...
VVhile Turkish cops without a search warrant ransacked Sergeant King's house under the terrified eyes of his wife and children, King himself was taken not to jail but to the stable dungeon. There, says King, he was introduced to an old Turkish custom: the bastinado. As he hung head down from a rafter, two Turks took turns beating the soles of his bare feet with a "rubber or leather stick...