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Roosevelt and his party arrived first, and in a few moments the reception room was jingling with the clink of glasses and gold braid. Stalin and party arrived five minutes early-precisely enough time for one drink...
...dinner Churchill announced that toasting would follow the Russian style -everyone toasting everyone else. Later estimates of the toast total ranged from 35 to 50, but all accounts agreed that Stalin joined in all, amiably ambling around the table to clink glasses with the person being toasted...
...life was worth dying for because it was worth living. That night the father goes back for the first time to the store. A shy young sailor (Henry Morgan) turns up. He is the dead boy's closest comrade. Together the boy's father and his friend clink cut-glass cups of loganberry wine, in the mild Puritan salute which had first linked father & son as mature males...
...three days at Asuncion barefooted Indians stared at the gold-braided visitors, watched their little army goose-step, listened to the music that escaped from the ballroom, heard the shuffle of dancers, the clink of sabers. They had come to see swarthy, stolid Higinio Morinigo inaugurated Dictator-President (salary $236 a month) of their pictorial, backward Para guay...
...funeral over, Pepe commissioned Galo, once Minister of Defense, to break the news to Police Minister Dr. Aurelio Aguilar Vasquez that Pepe did not plan to return to the clink. Pepe had not asked for leave, had not been notified of his release by proper authorities, had refused use of a Government car. Now he was comfortably situated in Galo's roomy residence. To the astonished Minister Galo added: "We are ready to repel any attempt on the part of the authorities to break into my house. I only request that I be notified ahead of time so that...