Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...
Talk of the Town. Half a dozen latinos jumped to embrace Torres Bodet as he went back to his seat. That night he was the talk of every cocktail party in town...
...work becomes artificial and almost unbearable. The long, casually connected sentences and the nonsyllabie tough talk do not seem to suit the writer, though his talent is obvious. Besides this story, there is a kind of dialogue called "O The Dangers of Daily Living," which satirizes, not wholly successfully, cocktail party conversation. It also contains some symbolism, but the piece doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of unravelling. The back pages are filled by two long book reviews...
...world crisis continued; but the first shock of U.S. realization had subsided. The U.S., remembering the danger signals before World War II, mulled over the deadly parallel. By last week, some cocktail-party pundits were beginning to mutter: "Why not drop the bomb on Russia...
Charmer's Charm. The Sheraton Corp. of America hotel chain's cocktail lounge "Service with Charm" (principal item: nylon-gowned waitresses picked for looks, height [5'6"] and underpinning) had worked like a charm, said New York General Manager Gilbert Johnson. It had more than doubled liquor sales in eleven hotels and will be extended to all the rest with lounges...