Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has about 7,000 men here, the Army about 6,000. Air Force characters drift in & out. Those who want company pick up White Russian or Chinese girls. Restaurants and cafes have beer, Scotch and vodka, steaks, pastries and swell Chinese food. It all seems wonderful after the healthy but tasteless service chow...
...whit disturbed, Attlee doodled diligently during the speeches. Afterward he and Bevin went out together. Their destination: the Soviet Embassy, to drink Russia's health in vintage vodka, celebrating the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution...
...Russians I talked to ... apologized for not treating us with vodka, because, as they said, they used it all up. I could easily believe it. They kept steering our "social" conversation towards political subjects, but always stayed within the limits of tact and good diplomacy. . . . They seem to have a maximum of self-confidence as a military force...
...purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry Truman, who prefers bourbon, will have to drink many a toast in vodka...
Transferred to the household of the Privy Councilor Menshikov, Marta soon became "a part of the gay, foul pageant of the Muscovite demimonde." She endured with patience Menshikov's orgiastic embraces and downed her vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary...