Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast to "one of history's truly monumental figures," and the Marine Band blared out Roosevelt's old campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again...
...afternoon, Haig was visited by Avital Shcharansky, 31, wife of the imprisoned Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, who is reported to be receiving harsh treatment at the Soviet labor camp where he is serving a 13-year sentence. In a toast to his visitor, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir welcomed Haig's participation as a "positive approach" and added, "We too are ready to make an effort...
...Jets and the Giants provided New Yorkers with fine memories in 1981. For the Giants, newcomers Rob Carpenter and Lawrence Taylor were quickly elevated to celebrity status by a New York media hungry for heroes. Joe Danello became the toast of the town by beating Dallas with his overtime field goal...
Yesterday I decided to have "chicken florentine" soup and some toast for lunch. I sat down and took a spoonful of the soup. I was about to eat it when I noticed something strange on my spoon. It looked sort of like a large gray noodle. I had never seen a gray noodle before, so I looked more closely at this substance, and discovered that it was actually a piece of cardboard. This was rather disturbing. You see, when I left in August to come here, cardboard was not considered food. I suspect that cardboard is still not considered food...
STAN BARANCZAK and Mark Fusco will drink a toast, While Garry Trudeau leads a Richard Pipes roast. Brian Byrne, Stacy Campbell and fair Aglaia Senese Each at 14 Plympton will renew their lease. Saul Chafin and Steve Verr will elbows bend To down a glass at their lawsuit's end. Tis a season of mistletoe, turkey and slush For Czeslaw Milosz, Fred Jewett and preppy George Bush. Don Fleming, the cager and evolving Steve Gould, But not Joe Duarte, whose regime will be fooled. Adam Ulam, Ron Erhardt, and talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond...