Word: edinburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was as old as anyone should be, concluded Barrie. "Nothing that happens after we are twelve matters very much," added the little Scot, whose body cooperated by arresting its growth at 5 ft. But the adult world mattered when, after graduation from Edinburgh University, he was expected to prepare for a solid job and search for a mate. The first prospect filled him with gloom, the latter with dread. He wrote in his notebook: "Great-est horror-dream I am married-wake up shrieking...
...Edinburgh court circles became so enamored of haute cuisine that a serious food shortage developed. The rage persisted under James' daughter and successor, Mary Queen of Scots. Marmalade is said to have been invented by the royal chef as a pick-me-up when Mary came down with a fever after a cold night tryst with her lover; the orangey concoction was named Marie malade. (A more prosaic version traces marmalade to marmelo, the Portuguese word for quince, the original ingredient.) Leg of mutton is still known by its French name, gigot, though it is pronounced "jiggott." A superb...
Although the judges disliked Harvard's denial of an energy problem, two judges, William Hogan, professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School, and Norman Rasmussen, a nuclear specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called Edinburgh's concern with past responsibility "misguided...
Arguing that "quirks in the American way of life have led to the gratuitous use of energy," the Edinburgh students said that the American standard of living and subsequent energy waste has influenced the rest of the world...
...Americans are the kind of people who take a car to go to the bathroom," John McTernan, a junior at Edinburgh said yesterday. Fellow debaters Paul Bader and Cameron Wyllie ridiculed the use of electric urinals which they had encountered in a New York pub earlier in their three week tour of the United States...