Word: stagging
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...Soviet superiors, Stashinsky was a hero: he was flown back to Moscow, received the Order of the Red Banner signed personally by Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. At a lavish stag party, Secret Police Boss Aleksander Shelepin himself gave him the high award...
...shooting eye sharpened up on duck, hare and pigeon, Britain's Prince Charles, 13, sighted in on a stag herded into close range by royal drovers, gently squeezed the trigger of his rifle and bagged the beast on the very first try. Jolly good, puffed proud Papa Philip. "Dreadful and nasty," said Mrs. Jean Pyke, a member of England's League Against Cruel Sports. ''I'm not surprised," she huffed. "They have been teaching the boy to do horrible things like this. Perhaps it comes from King Henry VIII...
...recent years members of the band have been excluded from the stag lines of dances held during Commencement Week because they couldn't put in consistent appearances at the dance. Members of other undergraduate organizations who were at school during the week were permitted to attend, but only if they would attend every night...
With a sense that their faith is their fortune, the Rothschilds have borne it before them like a banner, whether socially, interrupting lordly stag hunts to fast and pray on Yom Kippur, or financially, refusing help to anti-Semitic nations and regimes. In terms of traditions, Rothschilds do not merely resemble, they rival royalty, and are as much given to intermarriage (of 58 weddings of old Mayer's descendants, 29 united first cousins...
...they are coordinated with the U.S., Britain and France in advance. But this is not what Moscow has in mind at all: it wants to huddle with the West Germans in complete isolation, split the Western allies. To plug the idea further, Smirnov issued informal invitations to a Herrenabend (stag evening) at the Soviet embassy, where he hoped to persuade key members of the parliament over caviar and vodka. Back in his office after a two-week bout with flu, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer got wind of Smirnov's projected party, ordered his lieutenants not to accept the invitation...