Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Common Market can be settled, but they expressed the hope that Britain would be admitted. Still troubled by all too recent memories of the Boche, Parisians showed only muted enthusiasm for the visitor, but at a state dinner at the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle offered an emotional toast and a special history lesson: "However badly founded were the immediate motives of our wars, however inopportune their execution, however ruinous their results, it was a great cause which was fundamentally at the source of our quarrels. In seeking to impose their domination, Germany and France were in truth pursuing...
...Milty ought to know it itself about as "Authentic" as Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Crusade. And this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato chips on every table. Or even the Chicken-in-a in-a-Basket (85 cents...
...emphasis on conventional and guerrilla warfare. In fact, Gilpatric, not McNamara, is the Pentagon's man on a little-known but influential group set up by the National Security Council to plan Government-wide programs to counter Khrushchev's threatened national "wars of liberation." Dry Toast. Away from the Pentagon, Gilpatric can more than hold his own in the in-group badinage of the New Frontier. At a recent party on his Maryland farm, Gilpatric welcomed Bobby and Ethel Kennedy with a toast, then declared: "We have a swimming pool here-only immersion in ours is not mandatory...
...first meeting. Over dinner in the Palais Schaumburg's chandeliered Grosse Kabinettssaal, Rusk softened Adenauer with long reminiscences of his graduate student days in Berlin 30 years ago, of tours in the Rhineland, of the Weimar era. As the wine and champagne flowed, Rusk rose to toast U.S.-West German friendship, then turned to the old Chancellor with the ultimate and justified compliment. Seldom in a lifetime, said Rusk, did one have the opportunity to meet such a "historic personality." Next morning, in Adenauer's spacious office by the Rhine, the pair got down to business. Der Alte...
...pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage for a private dinner party with the toast of the town, was not in his box. Informed that Cliburn was still at the keyboard, he scrambled back to his place for the encores...