Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farewell luncheon for U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, 63. While "France does not constantly approve" of American actions, De Gaulle said, getting in a few pro forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "We have found you a diplomat of the highest order," he said. "I raise my glass in your honor, in honor of Franco-American friendship...
...uncomfortably close to Morgan. The editing features tricky sound overlaps from one scene to another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...
Groups of clubmen will gather in smug houses on Prospect St. to decide who will take toast and tea with them for the next two years, and who won't. It has been this way for 50 years...
Today, Mr. U.S. finishes his breakfast of frozen orange juice and diet-bread toast, pops a vitamin pill into his mouth, steps into his fastback Barracuda, punches the tape deck button for swing or symphony, and heads for the freeway. The six-lane concrete strip lets him proceed at 65 m.p.h. toward his office in town-except when there are so many other cars going the same way that he can listen to all of Beethoven's Ninth. By the time he gets to the office, his wife has already called-from the pink, push-button Princess extension...
...Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position suggests that the only valid answer to that question...