Word: canapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restrained rock and the coo of unescorted birds at the bar, U.S. Chief Delegate Gerard Smith and his Soviet counterpart, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Semyonov, clinked champagne glasses and exchanged pledges of good will while the other American and Russian delegates chatted with one another and munched smoked reindeer canap...
...close to the Spacecraft Center, the nabobs of the space industry were rubbing elbows some 35 miles away at Houston's swank Marriott Motor Hotel. There, 25 Apollo contractors kicked in a cool $20,000 for a more sedate bash featuring pâté de fois gras canapés, massive ice carvings (the handsome, irrelevant figures of an antelope, a pumpkin and two dolphins) atop the serving tables, and an all-star guest list of 2,000, including Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, director of the center, was there, as were Christopher Columbus Kraft...
...much that they were bad. It's just that they were so terribly dull." Universal dropped him, and he headed East. "I was desperate. I lived off selling my blood. Or putting on my blue suit and going to hotels and crashing conventions for the canap...
...canapés are any foretaste of the meal, the confrontation will be cold, costly and interminable. After all the enticing tidbits set out by both sides, Washington and Hanoi could not agree last week on a venue for the menu, or even accept that the other side had any real appetite for preliminary talks aimed at ending the Viet...
...mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...