Word: roasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...belt pinching after feasts of roast lamb and pilaf, his legs a bit wobbly after trying them at Arab dancing, William Simon left the Middle East last week feeling justifiably tired but optimistic. The Treasury Secretary's hectic ten-day, four-country barnstorming had ended on the upbeat. Not only will Saudi Arabia take steps that could reduce world petroleum prices but that country will probably also invest much of its swelling surplus of petrodollars in U.S. Government securities...
...other night Kissinger devoured roast goose in a Bavarian restaurant. The discreet Secretary surveyed the bosomy waitresses, and after some hasty calculation observed that if those particular girls had not served the dinner, the hosts would have had to increase the guest list by 30% just to fill the room...
...early Las Vegas eleganza of the neighboring Chateau de Ville. But with few exceptions there are four constants: 1) a huge parking lot; 2) expensive drinks; 3) an enormous meal at tables crammed to fire department limits around a stage often no bigger than the platter under the ubiquitous roast beef; and 4) light comedy or musicals after dinner interrupted by lengthy intermissions during which patrons can refill those expensive drinks...
...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
...join 'em, beat 'em, decided the Journalists for Professional Equality, a group of Washington reporters who banded together to protest the barring of women from membership in the capital's venerable press club, the Gridiron. In competition against that group's annual "roast" of politicians, the J.P.E. staged its own bash: a $7.50-a-head, beer-and-chili evening to benefit the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. Entertaining the sellout crowd of 800 were such Gridiron defectors as Senator Ed Muskie, running a bingo game; former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, autographing his doodles...