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Word: gauls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some will be tempted by well-known names like "21" (52nd St. between Fifth Ave. and Avenue of the Americas), where the captain may greet all but nationally known politicians with a fastidious shudder and escort them to Transalpine Gaul. The food is expensive and sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fare Game | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...have two hundred pairs. But all insects, like Gaul, are divided into three parts, or segments?a head, a thorax or chest, and an abdomen. All have three pairs of legs, and most of them have wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...shop, one of the best in Paris, and the Academic du Vin, a wine school whose six-week courses are attended by the French Restaurant Association's chefs and sommeliers. Last week in Paris, at a formal wine tasting organized by Spurrier, the unthinkable happened: California defeated all Gaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Judgment of Paris | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared in the sky on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. William the Conqueror told his Norman soldiers that the comet was indeed a bad omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL REPORT: Kohoutek: Comet of the Century | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...left the gloomy castle of Loyola as a boy, packed off to one of his father's noble friends, who took him to court. He had grown into little more than an engaging rogue, spending his days in military games or reading such popular chivalrous romances as Amadis of Gaul, his nights pursuing less noble adventures with local girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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