Word: canape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determination. A first-rate bridge player, he competed in the Grand National Championship matches of 1933 and 1934. A determined Rotarian, he was president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...
Inconsistent sensitivity to alcohol in a supposedly normal individual may be an aftereffect of infectious disease, Dr. Meerloo notes. Or it may follow exhaustion or starvation. A probable precipitant is the combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear...
...Canapés & Cholesterol. Whenever Groover found cholesterol danger signs in a patient, he put him on strict diet and exercise. Of nearly 100 men in this category, 75% were thus restored to normal cholesterol levels. But some of the men developed high levels of cholesterol and lipoproteins (fat compounds containing cholesterol) even under the strict regimen...
...knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple...
...Last week Borge began his third year on Broadway, having long since broken all records for a one-man show in New York.* To celebrate his 731st performance, he threw a champagne party for the entire audience. At the intermission 120 magnums of French champagne and 50 trays of canapés appeared, along with 24 waiters from the Waldorf. With a bittersweet smile, Borge said, "This is the happiest and costliest evening of my life...