Word: shindig
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...clutch of Algerian rebel leaders and gave their regime de facto recognition. He put a figurative arm around everyone in sight, from Nehru to Sukarno, and whirled into and out of receptions given by half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof...
...good: it gave me a lot of extra hours with him." In the days that followed, Sidey went with Humphrey to Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. Last weekend, after Sidey watched Humphrey in action at a major Democratic shindig in Washington, Candidate Humphrey drew aside Sidey's wife Anne, confided: "Your husband has been probing me like a dentist's deep drill...
...rooms and massage parlors presented a shocking sight: crowds of people who were fully dressed, or almost. To celebrate the London premiere of Auntie Mame, starring Bea Lillie, Producer David Pelham had picked the Turkish bath as the logical place for a party. The result was as wacky a shindig as any the Madwoman of Beekman Place herself might have improvised...
Name-Wonder. Before going off to the hospital, Gunther gallantly tossed a farewell shindig, insisted on greeting each guest without help, though he almost had to rub noses before he could recognize them. It was a typical gesture. Anything but the traditionally tough, cynical newsman, Gunther fairly quivers with delight at meeting people, deeply craves their approval. Says one intimate: "He has no acquaintances-only best friends...
...take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang, a quaint, native dialect distantly related to German. (Samples: charmuziern, v., to flirt; G'spusi, n., girl friend; Remasuri, n., big shindig; tulli, adj., first-rate.) Soprano Schwarzkopf, veteran of Mozart and Brahms, has a fine romp. General performance and recording: tulli...