Word: te
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Left Bank. They were greeted by Claude, 46, his wife Louise, 44, and eight other friends and relatives. After a champagne apéritif 'in the small yellow living room, the guests sat down to a dinner of potage de cresson, bass en mousseline, côte de boeuf with jardinière de légumes, salad, and cheese (including a Cantal and a Gouzon from Auvergne, Giscard's home region). It was topped off by charlotte aux /raises for dessert and three wines-vin d'Arbois, St. Emilion and Sauternes...
With infinite variation but only slight exaggeration, some such table d'hôte is presented daily in countless American households. Samantha the cat, Buddy the beagle, Carol the canary, and myriad other furred, finned, scaly and feathered creatures are not only members of the great extended U.S. family; they are more equal than most. The U.S. pet set gets not only more nutritious meals but also better medical care and vastly more affection than the great majority of the world's people...
During China's latest ideological campaign, intended to discredit the ideas of the ancient sage Confucius and the reputation of former Defense Chief Lin Piao,* some of these commanders came in for stinging rebukes. At least five powerful army generals, including Li Te-sheng, the Politburo's sixth-ranking member, were attacked by name on radical wall posters for, among other things, "warlordism...
...sort of a floating court of the Medici. When the steamer Renaissance began a leisurely 14-day croisiere de musique off the Côte d'Azur, it had on board a classic boatload of cash and culture. Some 200 music lovers paid up to $4,500 to glide around the Mediterranean to the personal accompaniment of the likes of Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Violinist Alexander Schneider, Flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and Dancer Rudi Nureyev. Each day the geniuses would entertain the guests. Rostropovich, who left Russia on a two-year visa last May, was the star both...
...peach slices that Haller likes to marinate in Grand Marnier. For the President there are no seconds, except on salads, for which he has a consuming passion, particularly when they are perked up with finely chopped onion-whose breathy aroma is not likely to promote many postprandial tête...