Word: stags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Bandsmen, moreover, cannot be stags at social functions since by definition a stag must attend every event. Rehearsals and concerts make this impossible for the Band, Alpers said. "Bar privileges" after the Harkness concert have become more and more limited. And although the Bandsmen can later attend a Leverett House dance, they would arrive two hours late...
...keep the all Harvard-Radcliffe event from becoming too formal, the sponsoring Freshman Class Committee decided yesterday to sell tickets at 50 cents a person and invite both boys and girls to come stag. Anyone feeling strongly about bringing a date may, with difficulty, purchase a couple ticket for two dollars...
...seemed like just another Christmas dance in Goa's capital city of Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...