Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore Oriole fans to the end-dutifully led two elephants around to the front of the Capitol. Riding the pachyderms and still gloating over the triumph of the Pittsburgh Pirates were Pennsylvania Republican Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker. Later, Senator Scott met the visiting King and Queen of Sikkim and told them about his lofty ride. "Didn't you use a ladder to mount?" asked the Queen, onetime Manhattan Debutante Hope Cooke. "In Sikkim, we always use a ladder." Said Scott: "We like to rough it in our country...
Firewater Legend. The authors decant jeroboams of evidence to support their contention that what society expects of the drinker efficiently polices the uninhibiting effect of the drink. The Lepchas, a Mongolian tribe found in the Sikkim Himalayas, enforce incest taboos of astonishing complexity: a man may not couple with his wife's mother or elder sisters, the wife of his wife's older brother, the wives of his sons and younger brothers, and so on. On the annual rice-festival night, when everyone gets bleary on the native brew chi, sexual abandon is not only permitted but practiced...