Word: augustness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...true that our forebears could never agree when the cycle should begin. The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year as the Nile rose at the end of August. The Incans picked the year's shortest day (June 21 in the southern hemisphere), while Chinese New Year usually falls on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice. It was Pope Gregory in 1582 who finally settled on Jan. 1 for Europeans. But wherever it lands, it serves its purpose: the past falling away, its demons chased out by bells and whistles and drums, a new year born...
...carnival and Mardi Gras to carry us over until spring and rebirth. Then come the patriotic plumes, of Memorial Day and Flag Day and July 4 (not to mention Cinco de Mayo, Bastille Day and Samoan Independence Day) before a long spell when the holidays themselves go on holiday. August is the rare month with no shared celebration in it, when we gasp along for weeks on end without collective permission to overspend, overeat and overindulge...
...lifestyle. "This is the ideal American subculture; it's the way everyone would like it to be," says Howard Payne, a real estate lawyer who, along with his wife Linda, traded a five-bedroom house in Louisville, Ky., for a 400-sq.-ft. (37 sq m) motor home in August...
...fact was so visually striking in the global World Cup telecasts that it sparked intense discussion back home among politicians, who argued that whites had resisted integration at club-level rugby, and thus stifled blacks' advancement to international competition. Even before the team's opening game in Paris in August, the Springboks' manager Zola Yeye, the first black South African in the job in the team's 101-year history, told TIME that the team - good as it was - was an "indictment" of South African rugby's failure to integrate. He said he believed racial quotas might ultimately...
...Along this line of reasoning, paddos are a relative blessing. "Paddos now dominate the market for trips, and that has only advantages," says August de Loor, a veteran drugs consultant. "LSD use is down over the last couple of years, and we have seen the concentrations of LSD in a trip decline, because the relatively light paddo has become the norm...