Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clean up the streets. In the central market there are baskets of bananas, lettuce flown in from Dalat, fresh oranges from Cambodia. A new air-conditioned hotel has just opened, and despite the withdrawal of American G.I.s, Danang's restaurants still offer Johnny Walker Scotch and Courvoisier Cognac...
...appearances are deceptive. Hardly anyone can afford to drink scotch or cognac any more. The oranges and lettuce often perish unsold. A shoemaker complains: "There are never any customers. I have ten children, and I have to spend at least 1,000 piasters [$2.50] a day to feed them. I can't afford a bowl of soup for lunch...
...Strangely, the government accepted the rumors without checking them and gave out the good news (see THE PRESS). The world prematurely rejoiced. Even Willy Brandt went to bed shortly afterward convinced that his men had scored a triumph. In Jerusalem, Israelis celebrated and Mrs. Meir opened a bottle of cognac, ready to propose a toast...
Yevtushenko dismisses critics who complain that he refuses to give equal time to inequities in the U.S.S.R. He says, "They find it morally questionable to speak of the corruption of the Western world when in the Soviet Union the price of cognac is on the rise, the meat supply uncertain and the stores, in general, unjust...
...Schumann said casually: "There are really no serious problems with Britain's joining. We want Britain, and all we ask is that . . . she become a club member within the rules." Geoffrey Rippon, Britain's chief negotiator, struck a still cozier metaphor. "Reasonable men, given enough coffee and cognac," he observed, "can quickly see whether they can reach agreement." But all the signs are that it will take a lot of cognac to float Britain into the select club of Europe...