Word: cappuccino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls) in the town's dozen nightclubs and 25 bars, emboldened by a local libation called Aspen Crud, a vanilla milk shake laced with anything alcoholic. Latest place is Stromberg's, in the basement beneath a drugstore, where skiers dine on escargots, fondue and hot posh (cappuccino and rum), stay on for recorded flamenco, folk and jazz. In Vail, dancers head for the Golden Ski or the Casino Vail, where the latest fad is turtle racing. The leading turtles so far are Apollo and the Cuban Stallion, but they had better keep on winning. One sore loser...
...bridge fell down, if water was cut off from Rome, it was the Communists who led the protest. Faced with a milk shortage, Togliatti could be heard to say earnestly: "For a whole week now, there has not been enough milk in the cafes to make a cappuccino. That is terrible." He kept insisting that he had no intention of imposing Communism on Italy, that he only wanted benevolent socialism. "This means improving agriculture, raising the level of the masses and so on," he would say reassuringly. "In Italy, to nationalize everything would be madness." This soothing line brought about...