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Word: gastronomically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, then Vodka | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Moscow University's 15 Americans live in comfortable, two-room dormitory suites, which the ten married men share with their wives (children are not invited). The wives cook in community kitchens or on hot plates in their rooms, divide their time between shopping in the university gastronom and swapping language lessons with Russians. Bachelors live with Russians, Africans or students from Soviet satellites. All clean their own rooms and perform communal chores, such as K.P. and phone duty, assigned by the floor starosta, an elected "elder," or monitor, common to Russian group living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: U.S. Students in Russia | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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