Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right foot, Tito characteristically hit on a diplomatic device that cost him nothing at all. At a luncheon for Gomulka, Tito blandly wound up a lengthy toast with the statement that he considered "the present Polish-German frontier on the Oder and the Neisse the only lasting solution...
...where recovery of the "eastern territories" is supposedly still a hot emotional issue, Tito's statement could not be ignored in the last week of an election campaign. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano blustered darkly of taking action against Yugoslavia (nature undisclosed). The point of Tito's toast is that West Germany has never abandoned its claims to the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia, which were given to Poland at the end of World War II to compensate Poland for the slice of its eastern lands (68,667 sq. mi.) grabbed by Russia. Whenever Russia wants...
Tito's toast to Gomulka would then be something that the Russians, instead of the Germans, might find hard to swallow...
...Wilson chaffed, "The trouble with you Russians . . ." Mikoyan broke in: "I am not a Russian. Premier Stalin is not a Russian. You know that I am never free to meet you at 7 p.m. because at that time I always have a drink with Stalin. Do you know what toast we drink?" "No, tell me," said Wilson. Said Mikoyan, hoisting his glass: "To hell with these bloody Russians...
...neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note on any instrument to convince the unbelieving." Composer Hopkinson now appears on a Concord album entitled American Anthology, which takes the listener on a rambling and revealing excursion into the American musical past. Hopkinson's deferential A Toast to Washington was written to commemorate his appointment as commander in chief of the Continental Army. A watery, hymnlike piece reminiscent of O Worship the King, it is chiefly remarkable for its naive but hearty lyrics, also supplied by Hopkinson, e.g., " 'Tis Washington's health / Fill a bumper...