Word: menus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid on a man-killing marathon of speeches, parades, banquets and wreath layings to honor the first official visit of a French head of state to modern Germany. Nervous German chefs on his route have all compared menus to make sure that their guest is not served the same dish twice; heroically oversized beds have been deployed at each stopover to accommodate De Gaulle's 6 ft. 4 in. frame. In Hamburg alone, some 3,000 extra policemen will protect the French President. Along West Germany's borders...
...recent visitor, Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, President of the Sudan, got a specially made Winchester hunting rifle, delightedly replied: "I come from a country where there are 13 million people and 100 million wild animals." While the President impresses visitors with searching questions about their countries, Jackie carefully plans the menus to suit their tastes, often escorts the guests on a tour of the White House. The Kennedys have the Marine and Air Force bands play music to relieve the once embarrassing pauses at state dinners, frequently spread the guests around at small, informal tables instead of the traditional giant banquet...
...nnhilde-that competitors ignorantly cribbed). They used a worldwide network of "word watchers"-avid amateurs with Sprachgefühl (feeling for speech), who constantly peruse novels, menus, labels, ticket stubs, and even small-town news paper accounts of obscure murders. The head of Merriam's own shipping department, for example, is the part-time scholar who netted piggyback, as used in railroad freight hauling...
...life to retrieve her one uncharacteristic act of giving herself to him. The baron is a madcap giant of a hussar, a Homeric drinker and eater, an impenitent gambler, an indefatigable skirt chaser. Ippolita, to whom purse strings are the only heart strings, chokes as her beans-and-mush menus give way to roast pigs, shank sausage and plump capons. She likes to dress like a ragpicker; the baron makes her buy the latest imported fineries. Ippolita doles out fourth-rate wine to the servants in "a quantity congruous for Christians of base extraction." The baron invites them...
...apparently still have trouble producing a decent ballpoint pen. Signing autographed menus for guests, Nikita was handed a Russian pen that failed at the crucial moment. Pulling out his own, Khrushchev said grinning, "Mine writes. It is American. You have to recognize when a thing is well made...