Word: ewe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massif Central is a limestone plateau so austere and stony that it is beloved only by gazing tourists and grazing sheep. Confident that the isolation would last, the Roquefort cheese industry has long encouraged shepherds in the area to enlarge their flocks. Since 1966, the additional flood of ewe's milk has tripled, swelling the output of the blue-veined cheese...
...carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir, folks, step right up and see Lola, the living, decapitated victim of a hideous automobile accident!" There is the Frog Boy, and Giant Hong Kong Rats, and a "gen-ewe-ine female cannibal," ominously billed as Zoma the Depraved. And, of course, there is the terrible, eternal Alligator Lady: "She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile, a leapin', screamin', creepin', crawlin' mawnster! She's eleven feet lawng...
Despite the fact that the Shah strictly followed the rules of protocol laid down at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, some guests were miffed. When Kai-Ewe von Hassel, president of West Germany's Bundestag, was sent to represent (Federal President Gustav Heinemann, protocol decreed that he be shifted to a hotel and his tent assigned to the higher-ranking Princess Bilgis of Afghanistan. Von Hassel was not happy...