Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were having to spend so much time downing eats that they couldn't get to see Soviet agriculture. "I brought two suits of underwear with me," snorted one of the farmers, "but only one stomach." Every day, starting soon after 3 p.m., the Russians served lunch-a meal that often lasted long into the night. Sample menu...
Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries," reported New York Times Correspondent Welles Hangen. "Thereafter it is open season for anyone to propose a toast to almost anything except war, Fascism and mass destruction." But as for Soviet agriculture, one member of the U.S. delegation remarked: "In general it seems to me that the living standard...
...Toasts. The Soviet leaders sat together, Bulganin in the center, Khrushchev on his left and Molotov on his right. Then at three long tables sat about 150 diplomats and Russian guests, with separate tables for press and children. The sumptuous, eight-course meal was served by more than a hundred waiters and serving girls, who came in long lines through a grove of pine trees bearing...
...leave the choice to you." So Grace gives Gary a piece of fried chicken. This is the sort of meal Director Alfred (Rear Window) Hitchcock cooked up for his troupe in the south of France last year. Its a little overdone, but it's still fried chicken- or maybe even just a lark. Those ingenious instants of terror for which Hitchcock is so well known are missing. But there remains the familiar Hitchcock pace and wit, the easy salability of such stars as Kelly and Grant, solid supporting performances by Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams, and lingering views...
...stars, the Negro circuits had enough good players to fill a Negro-American and National League. From May to October the "bus" leagues zigzagged across the U.S. Their buses were rolling dormitories: seats, aisles and luggage racks did double duty as beds. Often there was no time for a meal stop, and sometimes no restaurant would serve a colored team. Then the players would carve up a big bologna and make sandwiches as they rolled along. Eating money, when Campy started...