Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oumansky was Washington's youngest Ambassador-suave, saponaceous, brilliant and astute. His English was spattered with current U.S. slang. His diplomatic parties were lavishly spattered with champagne and caviar. But Washington never really unbent to him. The GPU story would not down. In 1941, he was called back to Moscow...
...Russian Ambassador's mood was almost as black as caviar. As for U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith, it was doubtful whether he had had any idea, when he accepted Constantine Oumansky's invitation, that their lunch would be so dramatic. The Soviet Ambassador was hopping mad. He resented recent articles in the U.S. press which represented Russia's Mexico City Embassy as headquarters for an army of Soviet agents flitting around Latin America...
...noon, picking his way through a litter of broken dishes, George stopped to eat a jar of caviar. "Please go," said the restaurant owner. "If you could just go away? Quietly? Just disappear, so to speak? I give you five dollars...
...Field, would remain in experienced book-publishing hands, would therefore retain its "high standards and traditions." Smart Publisher Cerf looked frankly pleased at having beaten Mr. Field to a buy, chatted happily about "enormous postwar markets," predicted that books would soon be "a flounder business rather than a caviar market...
...Montreal's staid, 600-room Windsor Hotel, the delegates, 350-odd strong, came in from all parts of the world. The Russian brought their own caviar. Drinking delegates paid $14.50 a bottle for Scotch that was selling in Quebec stores for $7.25. Some 60 delegates, including the U.S. group, were sideswiped by the hurricane (see U.S. AT WAR) which marooned their train. They were 16 hours late. Finally the representatives of 44 nations put their feet under a tremendous U-shaped table and opened the second session of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration...