Word: cocktailing
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...refugees from a Manhattan walk-up-a rambling house in suburbia, a grove of fruitwood furniture, a set of leather elbow patches for Van's new tweeds. She tries gamely to keep up with hubby's new country squire pretensions. When Van mentions at a cocktail party that he is thinking of buying a 1929 Lagonda (an automobile), Janet chirps: "He's just crazy about good wines." Under the tutelage of seasoned Divorcee Shelley Winters, Janet finally sees what Martha is up to, squares the triangle with a retaliatory affair...
...school board headquarters, demonstrators went on to lie-downs in front of "Willis Wagons," mobile classrooms that are sent into neighborhoods with crowded schools. Negroes regard the wheeled classrooms as devices for maintaining segregation. Police arrested 56 demonstrators. Brick-throwing teenagers injured several cops. Hotheads lofted a molotov cocktail at one Willis Wagon, set fire to another...
...week, surrounded both at home and in his office by perhaps the best private art collection in California-from Rubens and Rembrandt to Picasso and Hans Hofmann. He serves on the University of California board of regents, and takes his intellectuality seriously, avoiding such normal business fare as cocktail parties and public functions. He and his wife like to give small dinners, at which the conversation is never as lowly as a tomato and the latest trends of philosophy provide the sauce. At home or at work, Norton Simon keeps busy at what he likes to call "the process...
...pursuits, but he has seized the challenge which the Ambassadorship offers with delight and, in the Kennedy tradition, vigor. In the two years and three months he has been in Japan, Reischauer, who speaks Japanese fluently, reads Chinese, and speaks enough French and German "to get by with at cocktail parties," has journeyed to 27 of the 46 prefectures in Japan. As if apologizing for his failure to have visited all of them, he adds that thanks to the gruelling schedules trips outside Tokyo involve, "you can stand about one trip a month...
...looking for. Finally the antagonisms well over: Ernest Borgnine (as one of the gang), chides Tracy and gets clobbered with some one-armed karate. Another gang member, Lee Marvin, gets dispatched by a fire hose. And the leader, Robert Ryan, meets his fate when Tracy makes a Molotov cocktail from a bourbon bottle and the gasoline from a jeep...