Word: banqueted
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...guests had sat down at a huge U-shaped table in the Kremlin's frescoed Palace of Facets for the official Soviet banquet in honor of French President Francois Mitterrand. No sooner had the caviar appeared than the traditional toasts began. Soviet Leader Konstantin Chernenko, who had been enjoying hearty laughs with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, remained seated as he pulled out his prepared text. He began predictably enough by saluting the two countries' longstanding friendship, but then moved into a calibrated criticism of France for supporting NATO's deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Western...
...seated next to French Transport Minister Charles Fiterman, one of four Communists in Mitterrand's Cabinet, uttered an audible sigh of impatience. When the Russian translation was read by the interpreter, a stir crossed the hall. But Chernenko did not even smile ironically, and 55 minutes later the banquet was over...
...whirl young dogs above his head and hurl them down to the courtyard to break their bones. Their plaintive yelps satisfied an obscure need for revenge, as if these were hateful boyars he was putting to death." At 13, he no longer needed symbols. Toward the end of a banquet, he stood and ordered a boyar arrested. To the surprise of his guests, the guards obeyed, and the man was torn apart in the street by hunting dogs. By the time he was formally crowned four years later, the adolescent firmly controlled the throne...
When Denis E. Cochran-Fikes announced at this spring's track banquet that he would not be back next year, "a lot of people were heartbroken," says men's track Captain Brad Bunney...
Once in China, Hammer received equally good treatment. The signing was toasted at a sumptuous banquet at Peking's Great Hall of the People. Hammer had timed the event to coincide with President Reagan's trip, but the President was sightseeing in Xian that day. So the confident Hammer spoke for him: "I know he's very pleased that I've done this...