Word: salamis
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...Budapest, members of the Small Holders' Party (known as the Salami Party) were saying: "This will give the Communists time to slice the Salami right down...
...tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...
Wartime rookies in the Coldstream Guards are crushed into shape by kipper-complexioned, one-eyed Sergeant Bill Nelson, whose arms are "gnarled as old salami," whose fists protrude "like mallets of black stinkwood," and who sounds off to new recruits like one of Mark Twain's brawny scrappers in Life on the Mississippi...
...dinner that evening Henry Wallace had his choice of great stacks of duck, eggplant, cheese, tinned crabmeat, smoked salmon, salami, sausages, cucumbers, cantaloupe, ice cream, Russian chocolates, port wine or brandy. The General gave the Vice President two brightly colored Sinkiang rings, one for himself and one for Franklin Roosevelt. In turn Henry Wallace produced a luscious rarity for the Governor's wife: fat strawberries from Alma Ata, Siberia. After two days he was off on the 1,500-mile trip to the key stop of his swing around Asia...
...Carmen that set a new standard of quality in the popular-priced operatic field. Critics rated Tosca (with Soprano Dusolina Giannini and Baritone George Czaplicki) a notch higher than the Metropolitan's recent job (in which Soprano Grace Moore and Baritone Lawrence Tibbett substituted U.S. ham for Italian salami). The City Center's Carmen featured one of the best Carmens in a decade: dusky Jennie Tourel. Daughter of a traveling Russian fur merchant, Jennie Tourel, once a prima donna of the Paris Opera-Comique, now lives with her Latvian artist husband, Leo Michelson, in a four-room Manhattan...