Word: gauls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonest causes of skin ailments is home medication of assorted cuts, scratches and infections without waiting for a proper medical diagnosis, reported Dr. L. Edward Gaul of Evansville, Ind. Thus misused, practically any medication can cause trouble-and this includes the sulfas, antibiotics, local anesthetics and antihistaminics...
Soprano Gamut. Next night came the company's first Norma in nine years. Written in 1831, Norma was one of the last of the bel canto operas, designed chiefly for vocal acrobatics. The scene is Gaul of the Druids' day. Norma is a high priestess who has broken her vow of chastity and borne the Roman proconsul two children, only to find that he really loves a younger priestess. Much of the melody is limp as a drink of water and the harmonies have the simple severity of Stonehenge, but fastidious fans love...
...14th century romance, the hard-won bride of the chivalrous Amadis of Gaul; in Elizabeth's court, an approved poetic pseudonym for Elizabeth...
Then it happened. One night in December 405, the Rhine froze, and a German raiding party crossed. They found only shadow garrisons against them; the Legions had been called back to Italy to resist Alaric. The word spread, and by spring the unopposed German tribes had overrun eastern Gaul and were pouring west to the sea and south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends...
...Gaul & Wormwood...