Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current phase of the cold war, one of the severest trials of strength with the adversary involves the ability to belt down toast after toast without falling over. The Russians have the advantage of longer familiarity with the chosen weapon, which is usually vodka...
...Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong, and able to note a slight transformation in Khrushchev's drinking pattern that had taken place early...
Next day, at the bargaining table, Konrad Adenauer slyly asked the Russians present how far a man could be trusted who matched a vodka toast with one of plain mineral water. Caught dead to rights, Russia's Khrushchev admitted his deception with a loud guffaw...
...moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became the toast of Boston...
Konrad Adenauer sat in the aura of his prestige in Secretary Dulles' dining room in Washington, straight-backed and spare his weathered mask of a face transformed by a wintry smile. "Now that Sir Winston Churchill is no longer active," said Dulles as he proposed a glowing toast, "you are the dean of the Western world." Three days later the old man sat grave-faced amid a rowdy powwow of the Oneida Indians in the student union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief...