Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three long tables were piled high with goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...
...almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...long can Yale authorities continue to overlook the serious direction in which a little vodka has turned student heads. The names of the leaders--"V. Leggakacheff, S. Pullizpantzoff, X. Wachtoff, and D. Ginsburgovitch"--have already been revealed. It remains only for the crusading "Yale News" to make university authorities fully aware of the "White menace" and to send all remmants of Czaritst Imperialism back to Lenin...
...Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board upped the already high price of liquor 50%, and was immediately charged by its akvavit and vodka-loving populace with war profiteering...
Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...