Word: dessertation
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...leveled. A pink-cheeked'stewardess, her nose peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban rum he had bought at the airport, and things...
...comes. For the entree he eats humble pie. And for dessert he eats crow. A tall, muscular, handsome young man arrives, greets him as the boy he obviously is, walks out with the girl on his arm. "Antoine," the girl's mother asks him gently, "shall we watch television?" In silence the boy turns his chair to face the music...
...drew some 600 people to the International Inn's chandeliered Federal Room. To make things merrier, there were baskets filled with miniature Scotch and bourbon bottles on each table; there was sherry in and with the soup, a '59 Pouilly-Fuisse with the fish, champagne with the dessert (which was soaked in Cherry Heering). and cognac with the coffee. The guests included not only the Washington regulars-like Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey-but a large assortment of out-of-towners. Among those present was the New York Yankees' outfielder Mickey Mantle, happily admitting: "I paid...
...hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny. But constitutionally, though he sported a manelike shock of red hair, Swinburne was comically ill-equipped to live the Byronic life he longed for. Tadpole tall and squeaky-voiced, he was forever getting drunk on the dessert wine, and more often than not had to be carried home from dinner parties...
...thinks are being overlooked. When he feels a speaker is talking too long or to no point, De Gaulle drums his fingers irritably on the table. When he has heard enough, he declares crisply, "Eh bien, messieurs, nous avons terminé." Barracks Vocabulary. Lunch (appetizer, meat or fish, salad, dessert, two wines) starts at 1 o'clock and is usually a working meal, attended by Elysée aides and outside guests...