Word: eau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris, the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé last week suggested the title for a new and presumably sweaty exploitation film, Histoire d'Eau, showing that even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about...
...member of the House Armed Services Committee. Kappus recalls how he met a charming Soviet embassy official named Boris A. Sedov and was soon being invited to Soviet embassy parties. Kappus was genuinely dazzled. "I was just a kid," says he, "two years out of Eau Claire, Wis., and there I was-waiting to be introduced to the ambassador...
...Mobile, Ala., shipyard worker, Aaron, like Ruth, rose from humble origins. He started in professional ball in the old Negro League Indianapolis Clowns. The 19-year-old Aaron signed with the Braves organization and played for the Braves Eau Claire, Wis., farm club in 1952. In 1953 the young slugger hit his way to the most valuable player award in the minors. The next year he was called up to the Braves squad and on April 23, 1954, he hit his first four-bagger against the Cards...
With the comet Kahouteck, a new fervor of denial is called for and the bigs cars which once paraded by the ocean's edge are suddenly forgotten in this new age, ashtrays big as bathtubs unfulfilled. The new car aerosol, eau de new car, settles feebly into the floormats, unsmelled. These cars to be remaindered. Their loss to the nation would in a sense be a measure of the boy's unfulfilled responsibility, a symbol of his removal from the social machinery. His capacity to do good for his fellow citizens was as fleeting as the tire tracks...
...remnant of the Third Army, which is surrounded on the east bank, move into Israeli-held territory. We saw an example of the little courtesies that hostile army officers sometimes allow one another when battles have ended. An Israeli officer passed out some fresh fruit; an Egyptian reciprocated with eau de cologne. The Egyptian told his Israeli counterpart: "Since no one really knows who won this war, the chances for peace are much better than ever." The Israeli nodded...