Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Half-time was the key," Lackner said. "We gave them some oranges we had injected with vodka in order to slow them down. Apparently it did the trick...
...interviews with travelers. The station's 100 political analysts, many of them natives of Eastern Europe, often are able to draw deductions that an official Eastern European commentator could never make. Example: the notion that the Polish government actually encourages alcoholism because it collects a big tax on vodka...
...ranking woman in the Soviet Union. Straight from the airport with a fresh San Clemente suntan, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger came to meet her. Someone asked if Kissinger would have the same success with the ladies in Moscow that he does in Hollywood. Furtseva (twinkling at him over the vodka and caviar): Bolshe (Bigger). Kissinger (twinkling back): I hope you have a heart specialist in Moscow. Furtseva: Don't worry. I am surprised-I had heard you were ten feet tall. Kissinger: That's because my staff has to approach me on their knees. Both (toasting): To friendship...
After five ballets, three state dinners and a liver-taxing marathon of vodka toasts to Soviet-American friendship, Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans and his aides arrived home last week, hopeful that their mission to Moscow would help open a new millennium of trade between the two superpowers. While Stans was busy gaining five pounds from eleven days of Russian hospitality, Soviet-American commerce was likewise growing heftier...
Skinner nonetheless allows himself some relaxation. He drinks vodka and tonic in the late afternoon, sees an occasional movie, reads Georges Simenon detective novels once in a while, and enjoys the company of friends, his two children and his grandchildren. It sounds fulfilling, but a poignant passage from a personal journal several years ago suggests an underlying sadness: "Sun streams into our living room. My hi-fi is midway through the first act of Tristan and Isolde. A very pleasant environment. A man would be a fool not to enjoy himself in it. In a moment I will work...