Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moses lived to the golden age of 120-and gave his people a toast that has endured the centuries. "Biz hundert un tswantsik [until 120]," says the Jew on anniversary occasions, expressing the hope that the honored guest may live to equal Moses' span. Last week Jews all over the world raised a figurative glass to one among them that had reached the magic year: the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper...
...change blowing through Africa has become a hurricane." said Osagyefo. "Whatever else is blown into the limbo of history, the personal regard and affection which we have for Your Majesty will remain unaffected." Ignoring leftist advisers, who want him to leave the Commonwealth, Nkrumah lifted his glass to toast the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth itself...
Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
...Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never a party member, Andric (pronounced Ahndreach) celebrated his Nobel award with a slivovitz toast to Sweden, hoped despite his frail health to make the trip to Stockholm next month to accept the $48,300 prize...
...Fanciulla opens, a crowd of gold miners surges into the Polka ("A Real Home for the Boys"), order "veeskey" and proceed to drink a toast ("Veils Fargo!" shouts one sport; "Ip! ip!" reply the miners). The most unpopular man in the place is Sheriff Jack Ranee, who divides his time between lusting after Minnie, the Polka's owner, and pursuing a bandit named Ramerrez. In Act I, Minnie falls in love with Dick Johnson, a stranger in the Polka, invites him up to her place on the mountain only to learn in Act II that he is Ramerrez. When...