Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bartender named Moe Green, hired to mix drinks for the Hunter College lounge, promptly invented a UNO cocktail (vodka, French vermouth, Swedish punch and a dash of orange bitters.) "It's a beauty," said Moe. "It'll make sour tempers sweet, and have 'em all talking the same language-if they can still talk." One Joe Forestieri, proprietor of a Bronx hash-house called the College Luncheonette, prepared to re-name it UNO Joe's. He explained carefully: "You could take it in two ways." Gate crashers schemed to get into UNO meetings with a vigor...
...Plenty of Vodka." Gromyko's walkout only emphasized the Russian insistence on one-power veto-even for procedural matters-which they have been raising ever since Dumbarton Oaks. The Council had refused to accept a paralyzing procedural veto...
...abolish rationing and lower food prices, Moscow announced price slashes as high as 60% in foodstuffs. The cuts applied only to the commercial gastronomes, where groceries are sold (at high mark ups) to supplement standard 'rations. Bread and cigarets fell 50%, sugar 33%, coffee 40%, meat 20%, vodka and wines...
...looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
Smashing up nightclubs is a fairly common occurrence in Shanghai. There are plenty of incidents: four sailors walking into a Hong Kong shop, grabbing seven bottles of vodka and walking out; a G.I. slugging a pedicab driver because he rang his bell behind him; G.I.s driving their Army vehicle through the window of a bar because they thought they had been gypped...