Word: mongol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunch brought that favorite of professional wrestling fans, puree mongol soup, the only soup around that will burn a hole in your pants should you mistake the latter for your mouth...
...seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified...
Naturally, McNeill soon turns from war to peacetime plagues. The most famous, bubonic plague, was carried westward from China and Manchuria by the marauding Mongol hordes, and decimated Asia before being brought by ship to Europe. There, it hit the unprepared Continent like evidence of God's displeasure; between 1346 and 1350, plague killed a third of Europe's population, and it disrupted social and governmental structures for centuries. Disease apparently took a hand in ecclesiastical history...
West Lake, ringed by hills of transcendental beauty, is the centerpiece of a city redolent with memories of imperial history. Marco Polo, who saw Hangchow in the 13th century before it was savaged by Mongol invaders, found it "the most splendid city in the world." Its streets were "as smooth as the floor of a ballroom," its waters were rippled by "an endless procession of barges." its courtiers were "intent upon nothing but bodily pleasure and the delights of society...
...discussion period following the match, referee Tom McNeeley showed the form which made him New England Middleweight Boxing Champion ten years ago. His powerful left managed to convince both Mongol Bepo and his villainous manager, Tony Angelo, of the correctness of his decision. The crowd approved...