Word: orloff
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Nationality seems to make no difference at all. "Ga-ga-GAAK, ga-ga-GAAK" means the same thing to a Russian Orloff rooster, an Italian Leghorn, a Cornish cock or a New Hampshire Red. At the sound of the excited cackling, prudent poultry the world over get the same message: "Watch out! Danger...
...that note, the leaders adjourned for a small ceremonial lunch?langouste, pate de foie gras, noix de veau Orloff and three French wines. Jackie sat at De Gaulle's right, charmed him with her careful, schoolbook French. When he rose to toast his visitors, De Gaulle again spoke in austere tones, but veteran observers of his methods noted a rare, genuine warmth as he told the Kennedys: "You saw this morning how happy Paris was to see you. I do not need to add anything to this...
Died. Nicholas W. Orloff, 66, Russian prince and army officer who fled the Bolsheviks in 1920, became a U.S. citizen, served as chief United Nations interpreter until 1955, was the deft unofficial translator for the American Broadcasting Co. during Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour; of a heart attack; in Oyster...
...proper course seems to be clearly indicated by the statement of Justice Jackson in the majority opinion in Orloff v. Willoughby...
...least no one on this Court which has repeatedly sustained the assertion by Communists of the privilege against self-incrimination, questions or doubts Orloff's right to withold facts about himself on this ground. No one believes he can be punished for doing so. But the question is whether he can at the same time take the position that to tell the truth about himself would incriminate him and that even so the President must appoint him to a position of honor and trust. We have no hesitation in answering that question...