Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...port, they dispatched four helicopters, and within minutes they were hovering over the Grommet Reefer; one by one, the survivors were plucked off to the resounding applause of the onlookers and set ashore. By nightfall, the 37-hour ordeal was over, and the happy crew was giving a banquet for Captain Saukant, last man off the broken Reefer, and in many a Leghorn household that night, Italians feasted happily on American turkeys, which tasted a little of diesel oil and salt water...
...evening last January, in the pale green dining room of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime Minister again, and enjoying it. Sitting near him were Lords Ismay, Cherwell and Alexander. Among the 40 guests, few noticed the tall, slim British general seated downtable. But suddenly Churchill waved a brandy glass at the officer and bellowed...
Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...
...laid tables, and toasted their ladies to the music of Oriental minstrels, A wedding was being celebrated, the marriage of the child princess of Jerusalem to a young knight. Outside, the siege engines of a Moslem army hurled huge stones against the walls, and periodically, the guests left the banquet hall to fight for their lives on Kerak's battlements. Only the tower in which the bridal pair was staying was not touched by the enemy fire, on orders of the chivalrous Moslem commander, Saladin...
...Newspaper Conscience" outweighed news judgment in press coverage of the recent presidential election campaign, Carl E. Lindstrom, managing editor of the Hartford Times said at a banquet of the University's Nieman Fellows last night...