Word: caviare
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During the war Soviet diplomats and Latin American Communists carefully avoided anything that might set Washington's teeth on edge. In Mexico, then clearinghouse for Soviet diplomacy in Latin America, gifted, affable Ambassador Constantine Oumansky charmed Mexicans with his hothouse Spanish, his vodka and caviar. Local Commies, who were not encouraged to frequent the Embassy, decried labor unrest, concentrated their fire upon the Nazis. Most Latin regimes that were smiled upon by Washington enjoyed Commie backing for the duration...
...Immediately we were given dinner- an excellent dinner. All sorts of fish, excellent caviar-without end. After dinner we were taken home. Neither that day nor on any other day did we ever get a chance to walk around alone in the streets...
...book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
...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...