Word: folkl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jogging when visiting Mexico City in the 1960s. Then he made an appalling attempt to turn his running habit into a joke. The reason he had raced from the Palace of Fine Arts to his hotel room on that visit, he said, was because "in the midst of the FolklÓrico performance, I discovered that I was afflicted with Montezuma's revenge." Instead of laughing, those present tittered nervously or remained in stony silence. Seated beside her husband, Rosalynn Carter blushed and covered her face in embarrassment...