Word: nuptial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about any concoction to have their way with her. A scholarly study on the subject by Alan Hull Walton tells us that the pith from the branch of the pomegranate tree and the testes of animals were considered hot stuff. So were certain foods. "If envious age relax the nuptial knot," advised the poet Martial, "thy food be scallions, and thy feast shallot." Onions were a favorite, as were garlic, pepper, savory, cabbage, asparagus, eggs, pineapples, snails ("but without sauce," cautioned the fastidious Petronius) and just about any creature dredged from Aphrodite's watery birthplace...
There was no talk of divorce, no talk of pre-nuptial agreements, no mention of Al trying to run away with FloJo's money...
...unseasonal nuptial rush has more to do with finance than with passion. To cut some $1.7 billion from the estimated 1988 budget deficit of $8.7 billion, the country's coalition Socialist-conservative government is not only slashing some formerly sacrosanct social benefits but, as of January 1988, dropping the $1,350 wedding bonus that Austrian couples were traditionally given to help them get started in married life...
...rocks? Is reconciliation suddenly sweeping the country? Harris claims that many experts looked at the stats too hastily. The National Center for Health Statistics, for example, reported that in 1981 there were 2.4 million * marriages and 1.2 million divorces. Many misinterpreted those figures to mean that half of all nuptial knots untie...
...face of Chinese takeover. Rinpoche spent two years in India, then four in England at Oxford University, then moved on to Scotland to found a meditation center. In 1969, he relinquished his monastic vows. The next year, he married a 16-year-old Englishwoman, Diana Judith Pybus. The nuptial move drew criticism from lama quarters...