Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted assurance that De Gaulle, on his visit to Russia this spring, would not recognize East Germany or compromise the disputed Oder-Neisse border. Privately, De Gaulle was quite willing to offer such assurances. Not publicly, since that might dampen his Moscow welcome. The solution? A graceful (but fleeting) toast in champagne (Laurent Perrier '55) to "a united Germany...
...girl said that the 30 cent subsidy "made sense and was really fair," adding the amount was more than adequate for coffee, toast and cereal breakfast is standard off-campus fare. Another noted that although box lunches nothing anyone got excited about," she would probably use them rather than pay for the extra meal...
Cabinet Candy. On a normal day, he rises at 7, breakfasts lightly on fruit juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into...
Last week, however, Simon was the toast of Pittsburgh. Reason: he had moved to head off a takeover by somebody else. For two weeks, Crucible Steel, a specialty company with $300 million annual sales in alloys, stainless, tool and carbon steels, had been one of Wall Street's most active stocks; Crucible's stock fluctuated over a ten-point range. Then the reason came clear. Headed by Chicago Industrialist Morris J. Rubin, who helped engineer a takeover 21 months ago of the U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., a Crucible-minded "Stockholders Committee for Better Management" was buying Crucible...
...characters' faults; for instance, "the dove" Colomba, a hypocritically pious and hypocritically faithful wife affectionately twirls her husband's hair into horns while avowing her undying love. Even the blocking is significant. In an opening scene, Mosca lies at his master's feet while they both drink a toast to Volpone; in the final scene, "the fox" grovels before Mosca...