Word: kat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Djiboutians consoled themselves, as always, by chewing on kat (pronounced, roughly, cot), a mild narcotic leaf imported by air-because it loses its kick 72 hours after picking-from Ethiopia at the staggering rate of seven tons a day. A cheekful of kat, they say, provides something of a high, makes them care less about heat and hunger, gives a general feeling of happiness, and enhances sexual potency. A local post office clerk, assessing the future with what appears to be typical lack of concern, shifts his chaw to the other cheek and says. "If things go bad, we will...
...struggle erupts over Djibouti, rather than risk involvement in a Red Sea war. Djibouti's domestic deterrent force-600 soldiers, 1,500 border guards and 1,000 gendarmes-is hardly able to handle an invasion. If one develops, Djiboutians might be best advised simply to chew a little kat and hope for the best...
...javelin, Debbie Vogel led a 'Cliffe sweep, followed by Carle and Kat Taylor. Vogel also won the shot put, as she has consistently done all spring. "She's been our big gun in that event all season," Hunt said...
...Suarès and Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
...Being varsity will mean more of the 'little things,' like better sweats and more team meals," Kat Taylor says...