Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lunch. Sukarno won all down the line. While Moscow and Peking clamored their willingness to send hordes of "volunteers." Washington did a nearly complete about-face. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a press conference that the rebellion was, of course, an "Indonesian matter" to be dealt with by Indonesians alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then...
...government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...
...Washington, before his concert at Constitution Hall, he went to the White House with his parents and Conductor Kondrashin. President Eisenhower gave him a preperformance pep talk: "After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation from Texas. At week's end he returned to Manhattan to appear on TV's Steve Allen Show and to get ready for his first RCA Victor recording of the Tchaikovsky concerto (first pressing: 150,000 copies...
...walked on a red carpet into the Pabst plant to watch Wisconsin's Governor Vernon Thomson bung the golden 100 millionth barrel of beer. "We had to delay production two months to make sure the golden barrel did not get away from us," cracked a Pabst man. At lunch the party blinked at the deadpan declaration of Pabst President Harris Perlstein: "This golden barrel is the golden symbol of peace we can all cherish -beer has always been the beverage of peace...
...full year's study at Kyoto's Nanzenji Temple. Each day she rose at 5 a.m. to meditate for two hours before breakfast, then went to the temple to meditate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a few minutes off for a meager lunch. After supper at home she would return to the temple for meditation with the monks until 9:30 at night, then return home, take a bath and meditate until bedtime, around midnight. In 1944. after her husband died, she married Dr. Shigetsu Sasaki, a Japanese Zen roshi (teacher) whom...