Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears to have been-small cough behind back of the hand-a family affair. In the pre-Reagan-Thatcher days, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., Peter Jay, and his wife Margaret were the toast of the New York-Washington social circuit. Then came Mrs. Jay's more or less public affair with Watergate Heavyweight Carl Bernstein, subsequently chronicled with gusto by his former wife Nora Ephron, 42, in the bestselling Heartburn. Now it develops that while Ephron was turning to a novel to get satisfaction, Jay was turning elsewhere. Last week, Jane Tustian, 33, live-in nanny...
...Ronald Reagan had a double meaning in his toast last week to China's visiting Premier Zhao Ziyang when he saw good fortune for both nations in the "Year of the Pig" just past. Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann, a guest at the elegant dinner, read it right. Just to be certain nothing was lost, Reagan whispered to a friend on the dance floor, "There's a good omen in that for those Hogs...
...first time in a long time, Americans will be able to toast the new year with the feeling that it will bring greater prosperity and brighter prospects. With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll rather than in a rut. Looking back, businessmen and consumers can celebrate 1983 as a year of rebound and turnaround. For many industries and labor unions, it was also a year of transition and turmoil that will permanently reshape the economic landscape. Serious threats to growth remain, most notably the ballooning federal...
Throughout his New World adventure, however, Lafayette remained curiously immune to the principles he was fighting for. "It had not yet occurred to him that democracy was for export," writes Bernier. The soldier returned to France an enthusiastic supporter of the ancien régime. Yet as the toast of Paris salons, he met some of the new egalitarian thinkers of the day and became a genuine convert to the cause of democracy. His new ideals and his ever growing popularity drew him into the French Revolution, and at 31 he became vice president of the new National Assembly...
...couple of goodies we missed. Our heartfelt good wishes for new health and cheer. For Margaret Cimino throughout the new year. To Patrick Sorrento and Brian M. Byrne. To all who shoot pages and off auto here. To Evans and others who type late at night. A big champagne toast, for the future looks bright. We've brought you a year full of gadgets and gidgets To make all the press runs drop back to four digits. To all Crimson followers, joy, sleep and laughter: We hope you'll survive a whole lot of Days After...