Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never expected Stalingrad, the worst blitzed city of the war, to be cheerful. But the people are as chipper as chipmunks. A woman with the fine, warm features of an old coin stopped to say: "This was a beautiful city." A friendly little fellow, quietly steeping himself in vodka at the hotel bar, came over to condemn Truman and then explained that tonight he was going to get only "culturally" drunk, that is to say, not stinkingly so. Another man saw us walking along the street by the theater, and because we were dressed differently from Stalingradites, took...
...flamboyant Reynolds Packard, 43, tossed off the vodka in, one neat kan pei (bottoms up). Then he made a speech, whose opening remark was directed at the editor of the Peiping Chronicle...
Said Russia's man-in-the-street: "If they can't eat all the potatoes, why not make them into vodka...
...Russians acted as friends and allies only when it suited their purpose. Most of the time they played hard-to-get, wore a surly, suspicious look, now & then did not even trouble to acknowledge official letters. Then suddenly they would be all smiles and dazzlingly amiable gestures, complete with vodka and caviar...
During the war Soviet diplomats and Latin American Communists carefully avoided anything that might set Washington's teeth on edge. In Mexico, then clearinghouse for Soviet diplomacy in Latin America, gifted, affable Ambassador Constantine Oumansky charmed Mexicans with his hothouse Spanish, his vodka and caviar. Local Commies, who were not encouraged to frequent the Embassy, decried labor unrest, concentrated their fire upon the Nazis. Most Latin regimes that were smiled upon by Washington enjoyed Commie backing for the duration...