Word: toasts
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...stores in Britain, France and Belgium. That same year, a confident Conran opened his first shop in the U.S., but the British-made goods did not always fit the new market. The tumblers and wineglasses were too small, the beds needed to be enlarged, and customers thought the toast racks were letter holders. Conran eventually worked out the kinks, and his U.S. stores made $4 million in profits last year...
...started a garage-shop carpet-cleaning operation called ZZZZ Best (pronounced zeee best) and within six years built it into a $200 million empire. He was a millionaire at 18, and by the time he turned 21 last March, he was the darling of Wall Street, the toast of his hometown, Los Angeles, the subject of flattering magazine profiles and a guest on TV's Oprah Winfrey Show...
When the new U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Jack Matlock, rose to toast his guests recently in the shadowy old Spaso House residence, even he was astonished at the scene before him. Around the dinner table were two former U.S. Secretaries of Defense, two former CIA directors and one former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff mixed in with Soviet officials, including Victor Sukhodrev, deputy director for U.S.A.-Canada in the Soviet Foreign Ministry...
West German amateur pilot named Silke Matzen, who was traveling in the Soviet Union and witnessed the Red Square landing. Since it occurred on the Christian holy day marking Christ's ascension to heaven, she noted, Rust may have been acting out a popular German aviators' drinking toast that goes, "On Ascension Day we land in Red Square...
...right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman in a low-cut gown. "Yeah, sometimes Marines get assigned to some real good duty," the sergeant concedes. The lesson continues with Marines asking seriously how to - give a toast and whether floral centerpieces are customary at diplomatic dinners...