Word: cocktailing
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...pool their oxen in a farm cooperative. To Knoll, the experience has been inspiring. "After I leave the corps, I want to do more with direct contact between people and the U.S. We've got to get down into the soil with these people. White shirts and cocktail parties aren't going to swerve them away from Communism...
...What's the matter with Mickey Wright?' " A determined career girl with few thoughts of marriage, she logs 35,000 miles a year in an air-conditioned Oldsmobile Starfire (supplied free by General Motors) that is practically a closet on wheels. Her traveling wardrobe: seven cocktail dresses, 20 blouses, 30 pairs of Bermuda shorts, 20 sweaters, eleven pairs of shoes...
...clearly outclassed. Clay did a spot of sightseeing; Buckingham Palace, he allowed, was "a swell pad. I think I'd like to have a place like that." At Gieves of Bond Street, outfitters to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Cassius bought a red brocade cocktail coat and got fitted to a bowler; the fitter respectfully informed him that his head was slightly lopsided. Crowds of autograph hunters packed around. "Who are you?" asked one puzzled Londoner. "Sonny Listen!" Cassius yelled, trying to look mean...
...three Emmy awards as the funniest, best-written and best-directed humor show on television. He knows from just general absorption that Van Dyke plays a gag writer married to a delicious-looking girl played by Mary Tyler Moore. Van Dyke and Moore are arriving at a literary cocktail party. "Do you want to duck out right now," says he to her, "and take in a movie?" The laughter that follows this line is deafening...
...homosexual is a contemporary cocktail-party commonplace-so much so that the phrase "He's one, you know" earns points only when it is applied to third basemen, racing drivers, and Government officials of Cabinet rank. It is tacitly conceded that serious plays must be about homosexuality unless they are about racial prejudice, that all bachelors are suspect, and men with wives and children are fooling no one either. Nobody admits to loving his mother...