Word: cocktailing
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...concentrating in my father's field. Technically this doesn't make any difference. There are no courses he offers that I need for requirements and my particular interests do not coincide with his specialty. But knowing all my professors--or rather having them know me--from the annual cocktail parties we had when my father was chairman, places me under a certain pressure. I feel badly about skipping lectures because it might be considered something of a personal affront. The situation is much worse with tutors and section people. After giving my name at the first meeting of a section...
...days are scheduled: Up at 5 a.m. Break-fast at 7. Three hours of work on his autobiography. A two-mile walk to the office. Meetings with people and correspondence work. Lunch at noon. Nap. Light reading or mechanical work in his workshop. Cocktail (vodka and tonic). Television. Dinner and sleep...
Bulganin played a key role in softening the style of Kremlin leadership. As Premier, he launched "cocktail co-existence," giving numerous receptions for diplomats and journalists in Moscow at which he chatted affably and insisted that all the Soviet Union desired was a reduction of world tensions. Bulganin and Khrushchev also carried this message to foreign capitals, where the two bulky leaders were quickly dubbed the "B. & K. road show...
Despite the destruction, one squad member described the match as a "genteel affair." But the Yalies were hardly gentlemen. Depressed and defeated, the broken Bulldogs declined to attend the traditional post-match cocktail party, whimpering back to New Haven after the walloping...
...originally a guilty young man who admits "I know I'm no bargain and I suspect I'm deeply neurotic" - follows a common enough route, seeking happiness first in the routines and rewards of the business world and then junking it all to first with transactional analysis and play cocktail piano stints at local bars. He ends up, predictably enough, as a complacent and graying professor of accounting at UCLA, Doris undergoes a nearly parallel development, but her stages are always curiously out of synch with...