Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...menu included shrimp cocktail and steak, and Bok was careful to insure that meal-time conversation did not stray from social chatter to serious negotiation. Some city councilors complained after the gathering that discussions had been too limited and that University officials would not respond to general questions of policy on broad Harvard-city issues...
...real measure of the psychic hurt came in a hundred cocktail parties and reception lines from Canberra to Warsaw, where Moscow's diplomats, military attachés and KGB operatives went to work after a few belts of Stolichnaya vodka. Arabs can't be trusted to do anything right, the Soviets told other customers for their military hardware. In the air and on the ground, the Syrians were "incompetent and cowardly," the Soviets complained. The SAMS are mobile missiles. So what did the Syrians do? They left them in one place, rooted like oaks, and the Israelis knocked...
...help of his intended victims, the Rumanian double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing...
MISS MANNERS would not like Harvard, because, all things considered. Harvard is not very well mannered. Harvard drinks at parties until nauseous. Harvard eats at Tommy's Lunch, where they only give one paper cocktail napkin to each customer. Harvard makes Harvard drink from styrofoam cups instead of real glasses, not to mention investing in South Africa. Harvard eats spaghetti with a spoon because the forks came out of the dish washer green. Harvard tears reserved reading and old exams out of books. Harvard is just too busy to worry about being polite...
...become fascinated by E.R. will not want to miss it. The collection traces a warm relationship, though Anna was aware that her mother did not always comprehend human weaknesses, and utterly failed to understand, for instance, why F.D.R., during World War II, insisted on having a 20-minute cocktail break before dinner. But there was no pomposity to this doer of what Lash, quoting George Eliot, calls "deeds of daring rectitude." Anna recalled that toward the end of her life, E.R. was offered $35,000 to make a margarine commercial for television. She translated the fee into CARE packages, decided...