Word: buffetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chat. Here, for a few remarkable hours, the hunger of Berlin and the fears of the world seem as remote as the banished darkness. The divided world unites in the extravagant exchange of buffet-and-cocktail banalities-perhaps the only true international language. Bright Scottish kilts swish past the dull tan of Soviet uniforms; a U.S. admiral's navy blue is lightly brushed by the pastel veils of an Indian sari. Vodka, French wines and odd Eastern European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads...
...objects of this comment stick close to their husbands and their husbands stick close to one another. Russian officers and political advisers cluster tightly in two corners of the main room, tense little groups conversing as if the buffet were a conference table to which they had to return in five minutes with a major policy decision...
Preceding the program will be a series of buffet luncheons under tents in the Yard. Eleven classes dating back to 50 years ago will hold official reunion spreads, and members of seventy other classes will be present for the day's activities. Special dignitaries of the day are slated for entertainment at the Chief Marshal's luncheon in the Fogg Museum...
...bands, expects to wear white and khaki short pants. Yesterday's opener of the Sixth Reunion was spent at the Essex County Club in Manchester, with sports in the afternoon and dinner at 7 o'clock. Class members will attend Memorial Church at 11 o'clock today and a buffet luncheon including wives has been slated for 1 o'clock...
Only shift in the day's schedule came when cocktails and buffet supper, featuring an octet of bag-pipers, was moved from Sever Quadrangle to Memorial Hall...