Word: gout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with vigor the customs of the royal court, which is to say he carried on a succession of tumultuous affairs with titled ladies, tangled in the incessant intrigues and wars of 17th century France, recovered twice from severe wounds, and at 66 died, as befitted a gentleman, of the gout. His presence at court gave him plentiful opportunity to observe the follies of others, and his several terms of exile allowed him time to reflect on his own. The celebrated Maxims that resulted established him as the most trenchant aphorist...
...girl from Barnard explained that the Harvard men who attend jolly-ups are "generally undesirable." Discussing the seven dorms which have held or are planning jolly-ups, another, from Briggs, said "chacun a son gout," and mused over the possibility of buying a ping-pong table with the money saved...
...Necessary. He may steal your butts, scratch your records, drink your liquor, date your girl, and rattle your tender nerves; but he is Necessary. When choosing yours, be sure to experiment carefully beforehand. After all is said, the Neanderthal method may prove the surest. Chacun a son gout...
...were becoming blurred. It was to his advantage as a writer, for he saw men dressed for their roles in the sharp hierarchy of a ship's company. Writing was agony to him, and he was paid only £20 for his first book. He was immobilized by gout, but the fancy cooking of his wife, plain Jessie George, says Author Jean-Aubry in a very French aside, made things bearable. Isolated in his cottage in Kent, where he could sniff the sea, Conrad sometimes despaired of his writing (he thought of becoming a pearl fisherman or a Suez Canal...
Pathet Lao is Prince Souphanouvong, a half-brother of the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, and because both brothers have sworn fidelity to aging, gout-crippled King Sisavang Vong, the Laotians have been inclined to dismiss Pathet Lao as une affaire de famille. Since August the moonfaced, Paris-educated princes have been going about the capital of Vientiane arm in arm, sipping champagne together, and promising an early settlement of their "family affair." Says trusting Prince Souvanna Phouma: "My brother has never been a Communist, only a misled patriot...