Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara...
...years after the 1954 Geneva conference should be revived. Premier Boun Oum was at first reluctant-though his main stated objection was that on their earlier stay the Indians had brought an entourage of 400, who took over the best houses in town, refused to bathe in anything but soda water and cost Laos $12,000 a month in upkeep. The allies will also insist that Boun Oum broaden the political base of his government, which at the moment consists chiefly of his own relatives. Probability is that Souvanna would be asked to come back and join the Cabinet...
...recipes. The Keyses do not eat "carving meat" - steaks, chops, roasts - more than three times a week, and a single entree normally is not repeated more than once every three weeks. For cocktails they have martinis or negronis (¼ gin, ¼ Campari bitters, ¼ sweet or dry vermouth, ¼ soda water, over ice in an old-fashioned glass). The typical Keys dinner contains 1,000 calories, only 20% of which come from fats of any kind, 5% from saturated fats. A sample menu: pasta al brodo (turkey broth with noodles), veal scallopine a la Marsala, fresh green beans, homemade Italian...
...Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara...
...little ragamuffin with wide-apart innocent eyes like a newborn burro's, a mouth like a long, amusing sentence, and a silly little mustache that sets it off in tiny, hairy quotation marks. From the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego he is almost as popular as orange soda, and in Mexico he is the greatest national hero since Pancho Villa. His movies make millions, his baggy-pants burlesque of the bullfight draws the biggest crowds at any corrida, his tongue-tied twaddling and self-swallowing sentences have added a new verb (cantinflear) to the Spanish language...