Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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PROGRESSIVE BUTTERFISH: Member of the croaker family. Changes shape unpredictably. Feeds on Black Sea caviar, apparently without knowing what he is eating. Travels upstream to lay eggs on public platforms...
...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 on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
...Muse of History, gets her diary up to date, whom will she write down as the Man of the 20th Century? Barring the unlikely appearance, before 2000, of an extraordinarily effective saint or major prophet, the Man of the Century will be a German intellectual, devoted to children, caviar and Aeschylus...
Austerity was the keynote of the London office's Christmas, and most members planned to spend it quietly. Because of the shortage of foreign exchange mistletoe, usually imported from France, was virtually nonexistent, and commodities, from potatoes to caviar, were also in short supply. Although Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers...
Bread. Shipmates had noted that Panyushkin, who suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...