Word: buffetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned this year by the Permanent Class Committee because there was no time to elect to Class Day Committee, will bound along with 1) Triangle exercises--Class oration, poem, ode, and speeches; 2) lunch at the Houses; 3) parade to Soldiers Field for the Yale baseball game; 4) buffet supper in Kirkland House; 5) orchestra and glee club concert; and 6) dancing in the Houses...
Against that day, Britons had hopefully stocked the lush Lancaster House buffet with two indicative delicacies: gherkins and pickled herrings...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...Nevertheless, he declared the usual $1 a share quarterly dividend, hoped that the "tremendous existing demand for steel products of all kinds" will eventually make Big Steel's operations profitable. To take the bad taste of all this out of their mouths, stockholders then sat down to a buffet lunch with Chairman Olds and Big Steel's President Ben Fairless...
After the Foreign Ministers' deadlock on Trieste, Viacheslav Molotov gave a party for 600 at the palatial Soviet Embassy with a very lush, very Russian buffet. After the deadlock on the Italian colonies, Ernest Bevin did the honors for 800 at the even more palatial British Embassy, with a much more austere buffet. Cinderella-like, Bidault, Byrnes and Molotov left on the stroke of midnight; no sooner had they gone than Bevin cracked his party's glaze of tension by foxtrotting with Lady Diana Duff Cooper...