Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language of German prostitutes and Peruvian criminals, American college slang, Mojave insult gestures and the terminology of Chinese eunuchs. In an Olympics of world cursing, he believes that Yiddish would rank high, and Hungarian would win the blasphemy prize hands down. Also notable are Turkish rhymed insults, deadly serious Eskimo singing duels and a sneaky insult in Hindi that translates literally as "brother-in-law" but actually means "I slept with your sister." In general, says Aman, Anglo-Saxon cultures prefer insults dealing with excrement and body parts, Catholic countries are fond of blasphemy, and cultures of the Middle...
...these sea-giants roamed the waters of the world; the IWC estimates that today there are only about 1000 remaining. But last Wednesday the IWC compromised its position just before the ban was to take effect. At the request of the U.S. government the IWC voted to allow the Eskimos a quota of 12 whales. Eskimo leaders promptly responded that they would "be forced to break a quota that small," according to The New York Times...
...ESKIMOS were allowed to whale without restrictions, the bowhead might well be extinct within a decade or two. Time-whitened bones and Eskimo legends would be the lonely legacy of the 60-foot-long, 20-ton leviathan. And both the whale and the Eskimo would lose in the long run. On the other hand, a complete ban on bowhead whaling would hasten the erosion of a once vital way of life...
...income, race, occupation or opinion. There were 1,442 delegates who had been elected at 56 state and territorial meetings that were open to the public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women...
During a busy three-day visit to Alaska, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin rubbed noses with an Eskimo, panned for gold on the beaches of Nome, donned a hard hat for a tour of the pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, and collected postcards at every stop. He also paused to reflect on how Secretary of State William Henry Seward had bought the territory for a mere $7.2 million from Czar Alexander II in 1867. In the U.S., Dobrynin noted, the deal "was known as Seward's Folly, but Alexander was known as foolish in my own country long...