Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next evening Rockefeller got an argument from none other than President Dwight Eisenhower. Arising to toast Nixon at a White House dinner, Ike said: "The Vice President will be the head of the Republican Party for the next four years, and he will have my support and the support of all those who are present tonight." Unfazed, Rockefeller the following day paid a scheduled call upon the President, shrugged off Ike's tribute to Nixon ("I would not want to debate with the President on that subject"), and issued a call for "collective leadership" of the G.O.P. Then...
...police history: that spectacular occasion in November 1957 when New York State cops and federal agents picked up 63 high-muck-a-mucks of U.S. crimedom, all from one barbecue pit. That day, big-time hoods from as far away as Arizona and California arrived to roast steaks and toast marshmallows at the secluded estate of a beer distributor and longtime racketeer named Joseph Barbara...
...Gift of God." In Hindu and Moslem India, there are no clear-cut religious objections to either contraception or sterilization, but most Indians believe that children are a "gift of God," and well-wishers at wedding ceremonies toast the bride by saying "May you have a hundred sons." The toast is not taken lightly: the average Indian mother has 6.5 children. Orthodox Hindus believe that a son must preside over their funeral rites if they are to enter heaven, and India's high child-mortality rate makes it imprudent for a father to consider sterilization until his children...
...reception that followed, Khrushchev proclaimed: "Peace is inevitable. War will not help us reach our goal-it will spoil it. We must rest on the position of coexistence and nonintervention, and eventually Communism will be in force all over the earth." Offering toast after toast, Khrushchev seemed in high spirits. "They say that in the Congo the Soviet Union was beaten," he cried. "We say those who laugh last laugh best...
...long dinner, Adenauer was sufficiently mollified, but his toast was a pointed answer to De Gaulle: "One must rise above national egoisms. The German people are convinced that they have started, with the French nation, on a way that will allow them to get away from narrow nationalism. Europe can survive only if it is incorporated in a vaster community, the Atlantic community." Debre replied soothingly: "It is important that the French should have the feeling that there is no peace, no freedom, no future, if France and Germany do not defend the same cause...