Word: corkscrews
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...Russia (Mendès took sick, was sent home), during which Faure polished up the Russian he had learned at Paris' School of Oriental Languages. Years later, Faure startled a Soviet trade delegation by discoursing for four hours in fluent Russian, stumbling only over the word for "corkscrew...
...guests and their nurses. On vacation, he looked as chipper as ever, walking in the morning amid the trees, kneeling for as long as an hour in the chapel, while Paul, his son, said Mass. He joshed the hotel servants; when a waiter with a Rhineland accent brought the corkscrew to open some 40-year-old brandy, he insisted that the man drink with...
...door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining the documents to Bail and his roommate, Wetherbee then went off to find Amory and all four of them again signed the scroll...
...last week swarmed a crowd of 1,500 to dance and sip champagne punch. But it was no ordinary party; many of the guests eyed each other critically to see just how well they executed their "box steps" and such advanced maneuvers as the "triple twinkle" and the "conversation corkscrew." The guests were almost all students of Arthur Murray, most successful dancing teacher in the world. The occasion: opening night of Murray's 308th and most lavish dance studio...
...Bern, Switzerland, Alberto Ascari, Italy's brilliant racing driver, deftly steered his Ferrari to victory in the 294.7-mi. Swiss Grand Prix. Ascari covered the corkscrew course in 3 hours, 1 min. 34.4 sec., at an average speed of 94.3 m.p.h...