Word: auld
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believed to have introduced Aberdeen Angus cattle as well as curing and salting techniques-whence such delicacies as kippers, smoked salmon and mutton ham. However, there is a regal and Continental tang to the best of Scottish food, traceable to the nation's French connection, the "Auld Alliance" that began with the marriage of Scotland's King James V to Mary of Guise-Lorraine in 1538. Like a fogbound Catherine de Medicis, she arrived at Holyrood with chefs, recipes, wines, liqueurs, desserts and other Gallic trappings then unknown to the Gaels...
...case of Auld Lang Syne when McLaughlin returned to the Bronx Saturday night with the Harvard basketball team to play Fordham in Rose Hill Gymnasium, ten minutes away from his old home in Woodlawn. McLaughlin played basketball for the Rams from 1965-69 after graduating from Fordham Prep, a Jesuit high school that his older brothers Walter and Jackie attended before him. Walter also attended Fordham on one of the school's last football scholarships...
...Little White Lies. Cheerfully ignoring critics who called his music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader. His New Year's Eve concerts in New York City, which Began in 1929, became an institution. First on radio, then TV, Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne marked the nation's rite of passage from the old year...
Potbellied and ugly as the auld mug may be, it is the Holy Grail of yachting. Twenty-two attempts have been made to wrest the 100-guinea pitcher from the U.S. at a cost of untold millions of dollars. But the cup has remained of the firmly in the possession of the New York Yacht Club ever since it was won from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in 1851 under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia...
...goofball streak, his sulks, his frustrated rage. But the rea son such a character, as written, should interest us remains as elusive as the Lost Chord. De Niro is unable to move the role beyond the capsule description by the bandleader (played by Big Band Vet eran Georgie Auld, who also supplies the sax solos on the sound track) who first hires Jimmy. "Jimmy plays a barrelful of sax," says the leader, "but he's a top pain...