Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part assigned him and had yelled defiance till the end at the hidden author of the script.*Defendant Kostov provided some biting lines of his own. Questioned about Tito's police chief, Alexander Rankovic, he said: "I went to a banquet with him once where he proposed a toast. All he could say was 'Long live Stalin,' and then he sat down. A man of very limited capabilities...
...most people, breakfast is at best a marginal meal. Sometimes they get up in time for breakfast, rush to the dining hall and find them serving French toast. Strange as it seems, some folks don't like French toast...
...hours of actual debate was obtuse and certainly insulting to Mr. Hughes, whose contribution to the debate you totally ignored. And Mr. welcker never "urged . . . abandonment of the Marshall Plan." You reiterated your earlier misinterpretation about the dichotomy of political parties and made Schlesinger sound like the milk toast compromisers he detests . . . Sheldon L. Berens...
...with: "The laws of the Medes and Persians, they are not altered." What he should have said, he explained apologetically at his press conference next day, was "which altereth not." But however his memory had served him, no one could mistake the meaning of the President's welcoming toast to his guest, the Shahinshah of Iran, first Oriental monarch to make a state visit to the U.S. since...
...Around midnight, everyone crashes out into the street and runs through the fog and rain looking for something to do. There is nothing to do and the gin wears off and the thing ends in a steamy fish-and-chip shop or over a plate of spaghetti on toast...