Word: mamaliga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newer but less colorful, though the city's restaurants make up for that. True to Rumania's Latin inheritance, they offer ciorba (a minestrone with sour cream) and mititei (diminutive salami as garlic-laden as any in "Little Italy"). A bow to the West takes in mamaliga-cornmeal porridge that resembles Russian kasha-which is often accompanied by sarmale, stuffed cabbage Hungarian-style. Unlike most Latins, Rumanians are not great winebibbers. Their national drink, tuicā, is as clear and catastrophic as Yugoslav slivovitz...
...train and nothing else," explains Shotputter Matson, a gentle giant who calls everybody "sir" or "ma'am" and hardly goes anywhere without bringing along his pet shot in a brown bowling bag. As far as he's concerned, the M in A. & M. stands for Emil Mamaliga, 44, an assistant coach for the varsity swimming team, who started Randy lifting weights to build up his rangy frame. "You can't fire a 16-in. shell from a PT boat," Mamaliga insisted. "You have to have a big, heavy ship." By last fall's Olympics in Tokyo...
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