Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dinner, grey-clad and booted, Dictator Stalin regaled his guests with a seven-hour, ten-course meal including cold and hot zakuska (hors d'oeuvres), bowls of caviar, flagons of cognac and vodka, which many of the Russians chose to lace with red pepper. Thirty-one bottoms-up toasts were drunk (some guests hazily estimated 37); Dictator Stalin preferred cognac. Among those toasted were Major Alva Harvey and Lieut. Lou Reichers of the U.S. Army Air Corps, who had flown the U.S. delegates to Moscow. They received the Dictator's handshake...
...Hampshire, Warren Austin of Vermont and Chan Gurney of South Dakota introduced an amendment to repeal the Neutrality Act in its entirety. This clove the Senate G.O.P. down to its muddled brisket, completely took the play away from such Democratic fire-eaters as Carter Glass of Virginia, Claude Pepper of Florida, Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who were preparing to do the same thing...
WASHINGTON -- Congressional "appeasers" and "obstructionists" were challenged today by Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fla., who frequently has anticipated major policy moves by President Roosevelt, to seek a vote of confidence in the two houses...
Early results were claimed. The Germans said they had destroyed the Sixth, Twelfth and most of the Eighteenth Red Armies-about 25 divisions, perhaps 450,000 men. But the Russians still seemed to have some pepper. How much...
This week Winston Churchill put a new general in command of Britain's vital and much-criticized battle of production on the home front. From the Ministry of State to the Ministry of Supply he moved dynamic, able, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, who proved himself an able pepper-upper as Minister for Aircraft Production...