Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tally-ho," "Fore," and "Skol," are the cries for this set of sporty highball stirrers. Match the stick to the man, no matter what his drink. The stirrers are finished in dull gold, and come in a case that makes them a good decoration for a bar or buffet even when not in use. Each has a different sports motif and makes an unusual companion to a long drink...
...rest of the Bowles family joined in the comfortable, old-shoe diplomacy. They moved into a small, three-bedroom bungalow instead of the mansion-sized Embassy (mostly because the residence was being divided up into apartments for staffers). At their buffet dinner for the staff, they broke precedent by inviting the lowliest Indian employees. Mrs. Bowles, at first overwhelmed by the idea of ten servants, took to calling them by name, grimly began studying "Hindi in Thirty Days." The three Bowles children astounded New Delhi citizenry by pedaling their own bicycles to a public school held in a tent, where...
...Solorzano. Leathery Bullfighter Juan Silveti rolled up, slapped the President on the back, roared: "How's it going, Plaza old boy?" Plaza grinned. "I have a lot of friends in Mexico," he beamed, "who are bound to me by the craziness of bullfights." Later, there was an informal buffet supper, where Ecuador's President and 600 other guests consumed 15 barbecued lambs, two calves, 30 turkeys, 5,000 tortillas, 60 kilograms of beans, 14 gallons of mole, six gallons of chili sauce, three barrels of pulque (Plaza drank two glasses and liked...
Once at a buffet luncheon she found a bowl of uncooked eggs waiting to be used for eggnogs. "You know, I've always wanted to throw a dozen eggs," she said to nobody in particular. Whereupon she selected a dozen and threw them at the nearest wall, not missing it once...
...crashed through De Bruin's blockade of glove and muscle. Robinson was on target, bombarding his opponent with boxing's most effective and versatile arsenal. By the middle of Round Eight, De Bruin had had enough. Pummeled and pounded by a copper-colored whirlwind that seemed to buffet him from all sides, he wearily threw up a hand in a gesture of defeat and ambled out of the ring. It was Sugar Ray Robinson's 125th victory in a string that has stretched for eleven years with only two draws and one defeat...