Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture of President Ford on the cover [Aug. 9] was quite a welcome respite from the excruciation inflicted by the sight of Carter's hideous features. How will we ever bear looking at that face for four years...
...gagged at your reference to President Ford's attempt to eat an unwrapped tamale as gauche [Aug. 9]. Wrapped in dried corn shucks, Texas tamales are cooked in boiling liquid. The casing or wrapping has a paper-like texture which must be removed before eating the tamale. It would be more gauche to eat a wrapped tamale...
...your glossary of southernisms [Aug. 2] we will have to learn in order to understand Candidate Carter, you omitted...
...essay "The Struggle to Stay Healthy" [Aug. 9], Dr. John Knowles mentions the unmet nutritional needs of poor people. What he does not mention are the unmet nutritional needs of the majority of our population. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently printed a report of nutritional surveys revealing that almost half the patients studied suffered from a lack of the protein and calories needed to keep them in reasonably good health...
Americans have been so busy celebrating their anniversary that a historic event of equal significance has gone unmarked. This summer commemorates the birth of one great state and the death of another. Fifteen hundred years ago, on Aug. 28, A.D. 476, Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor of the West, abandoned his throne to Odoacer, a leader of Germanic tribes. Thus did the Roman Empire fall...