Word: cognac
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...still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...devour us. We threw ourselves to the ground and it burst nearby, breaking all the windows but not hurting anyone. I went to a café where I had been the first American three months previously and was kissed and embraced by the barmaid and given free drinks of cognac. The people told me: "We can stand the buzz bombs. That's nothing. But the Germans. We couldn't stand the Germans here again...
...down in easy chairs around the table and drank real coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
...messenger, has come in. He takes one look at the tall lieutenant and suddenly he is holding a bottle of cognac toward the officer. The officer carefully pours a tiny glassful, drinks, and hands the glass and bottle first to the pfc., then to me. As I drink, I hear the first version of a question which I am to hear many times in the next few days: "What in goddamned hell are you doing here?'' I say I have come up for dinner and he says: "Dinner!" Another shellburst leaves nothing to be added to this remark...
...rather than saw, another man enter the room. For a moment, he did not sit. He stood, swaying and staring about the room. The pfc., the sergeant, the three lieutenants and I stared back at him. The lieutenant who had lost the armored cars was pouring another drink of cognac. The captain saw him. He said: "Well, I see you're all right. Lose...