Word: caviare
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...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
...Revolution-time for Communists everywhere to celebrate, as the New York Daily Worker put it, the day when "a new era of human society was inaugurated, one that will eventually eliminate all exploitation, war, oppression." In Soviet embassies and legations around the world huge supplies of vodka went undrunk, caviar uneaten, hypocritical greetings unspoken, and crowds demonstrated outside while un smiling Russian hosts tried to hide their embarrassment at the scarcity of guests...
...most capitals only satellite diplomats, a few neutralists, some Egyptians turned up-and wherever he appeared, the loneliest man was the Hungarian, shunned and shunning. "I hope they choke on their caviar!" said a demonstrator outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm. A Finnish protocol officer, required to attend in Helsinki, insisted: "I'm not thirsty. I'm not hungry." A pamphlet distributed by students outside the Russian embassy in Washington taunted: "Try our new cocktail . . . freshly mixed in Hungary. It's spiced with children's tears and blood...
...members of the Porgy troupe hoped for caviar and good company. They were provided with yoghurt, raspberry pop and the supervision of goodwill-goons from the Soviet Ministry of Culture. The Russians were strong on culture, and they stopped, as nye kulturnyi, a game of tonk (a variation of rummy) that had been going more or less continuously since the company played Buenos Aires. "Old Squareville!" said an embittered American. "Home for dead cats...
Skillfully, the Russians masked their intentions. At the Turkish embassy in Moscow early last week, in an atmosphere of champagne and caviar, burly Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov began talking sympathetically about the "bureaucratic errors" of the late Rakosi-Gero regimes in Hungary. All the rebels had to do to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops, said Shepilov, was lay down their arms. Taxed with continuing to pour troops into Hungary, Marshal Georgy Zhukov roared denial. Said he, with a grand gesture: "There are already enough troops in Hungary to suppress a rebellion and maintain order...