Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
...Friday some of the tenseness was gone. At an open meeting, Lange twitted Ala about Gavam's going to Moscow "merely to attend a vodka party," was not offended when Ala got the best of the exchange by cracking back that Gavam got "plenty of vodka and caviar" but had not sold out his country...
...From the sky it receives back some 70 billion in rainfall. The difference must be made up by the Volga, Ural and other smaller rivers. In recent years, the Volga's contribution has fallen short. Without G.V.P., prospects look dim for such ports as Batum-and for the caviar industry...
...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
General Vaughan compared his boss with President Roosevelt. "It's just like having a fancy dinner of caviar over a long period," he said. "But sometimes you like to get back to ham and eggs...