Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frowning Oberwachtmeister (police sergeant) appeared. By this time, the first policeman was at the bar, singing. While the guests waited with bated breath, the two cops had a conference over cognac. Then the Oberwachtmeister pulled out his own little black book, approached the nearest film star and asked: "May I have your autograph?" In return, he displayed a picture of himself: "See, this is how I looked before I was sent to concentration camp-I was a big, fat man." Amid little cries of sympathy, his book rapidly filled with famous names. "Oh," he said. "My wife will...
Said the correspondent: "If it's schnapps you want, come inside. That antifreeze will blind you." He gave each a glass of cognac. The Germans thanked him, departed. Half an hour later they returned with the two blankets which had been stolen the night before...
...reads about as a woman's war report might be expected to read: human-interest stories, hard-boiled anecdotes, Perils-of-Pauline asides. In field hospitals Correspondent Carpenter saw "the hideous mess which high-explosive makes of human flesh." In newly liberated Paris she lived on "K rations, cognac and champagne." On the Rhine she rushed over the newly captured Remagen Bridge while MPs shouted, "Keep ten paces between you and the next guy-it's hot around here...
...chairman Georges Bidault listened politely from the sun flooded rostrum. Prime Minister Attlee did crossword puzzles. Molotov suffered in silence, his hands folded in his lap. Some delegates slept. Even the Gobelin-hung bar was quiet. Americans favored champagne; in the absence of vodka, the Russians went in for cognac. But, sighed the bartender: "Il n'y a pas d'ambiance-the atmosphere is blah. They drink hardly anything...
...interests are more primitive. They are chiefly three: 1) to find a German woman and sleep with her; 2) to buy or steal a bottle of cognac and get stinking drunk; 3) to go home...