Word: banqueted
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...always felt it belonged: on a lavatory wall. The cover of the Stones' latest-and as yet unreleased-album is a photo of a graffiti-covered wall above an unpleasant-looking toilet. The name "The Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls his own" and "Lyndon loves Mao," plus a bit of familiar bathroom doggerel...
...congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading a sprained ankle. Archbishop Ieronymos, Primate of the Greek church, agreed to show up at the dinner only after it was made clear to him that he was the guest of honor...
...then three days, the Czechoslovaks became apprehensive. Brezhnev mysteriously took ill and returned to his train compartment on the third day. Some observers feared that the sudden departure was only a diplomatic tactic, and that Brezhnev was actually threatening to walk out and break up the talks. A banquet for the two delegations was canceled. But the talks went into a fourth and final...
...boarding houses. Henry Willard took over a row of small houses at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Within a decade, he made his hostelry the city's social and political clubhouse -partly because there was nothing better, partly because of the Lucullan table he set. At an 1859 banquet for the departing British ambassador, Willard's offered up pheasants, venison, prairie hens, Virginia hams, lobsters, partridges and some 30 other dishes...
...will talk with almost everyone. During his first year in office, his audiences numbered more than 70,000; he still spends four to five hours a day in some form of community relations, averages at least ,five speeches a week. "I know," he boasts, "every banquet hall in Los Angeles." The L.A.P.D. has not been excluded from Reddin's conviviality. Not only does he talk frequently with all levels, but every two weeks he sends the troops a little newsletter dubbed "The T.R. Times." One of its maxims: "Don't blow your cool...