Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Party Chairman gloated: "They got the word." Finally lunch on the patio-caviar and pel'meni, a kind of Iron Curtain ravioli, flushed down with vodka, champagne and several Georgian wines-and, for hours after, a long conversation in which Khrushchev did most of the talking. The Soviet Premier enjoyed himself so hugely that he decided to do it again the following day and bring Mrs. Khrushchev and the kids, i.e., Son Sergei, Adzhubei and his wife Rada. Salinger had to pass up a planned engagement with Russian newsmen in Moscow...
...public. The pioneer was not one of Madison Avenue's Goliaths but Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., a fast-rising newcomer that in four years of existence has boosted its annual billings from $69,000 to $5,900,000 on accounts ranging from Exquisite Form bras to Wolfschmidt vodka...
...Fillmores, Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and 14 empty seats in the front row, reserved for the seven members of Fillmore's Cabinet and their wives. The Cabinet was off at the Russian ministry having dinner and soaking up exotic wines and vodka. Jenny Lind was singing Hail, Columbia when they swayed down the aisle and took their seats. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, Secretary of State, stood up drunkenly and sang along with her, while his wife tugged furiously at his long black tails...
...Moscow last week, amid quiet vodka toasts and cries of Mnogie leta! (Many years of life), Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev turned 68. Unlike Joseph Stalin, whose birthdays became vast public orgies of obeisance, Khrushchev celebrates his anniversaries in private. In fact, he had little reason to celebrate-and was under doctor's orders not to. Though four years younger than Stalin at the time of his death, Khrushchev has high blood pressure and a heart condition. Moscow rumors persist that he suffered a stroke in recent months; twice, after absences that were officially attributed to flu, Nikita has himself told...
...service designation of 007 indicates that he is one of the three operatives privileged to kill even when not acting in self-defense). In between assignments, he makes love "with rather cold passion, to one of three similarly disposed married women." And he can be as fast with the vodka martinis as with his Beretta .25; in the opening pages of Thunderball, he was in such bad shape that M had to send him to a sanitarium for a couple of weeks...