Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lavish luncheon at the residence of one or another. In an effort to accomplish more business, it was decided that the Americans would cater the meal during one meeting. The arrangement did little to promote détente, however. The mistrustful Russians brown-bagged their own caviar and vodka. The Americans-chacun son goût-served hamburgers. No agreement on Berlin is in sight...
...Soviet diplomat turned to a U.S. acquaintance. "You Americans are top dogs who are going down fast," he said. "We are underdogs coming up fast. We have Pompidou and Brandt going to Moscow. Heath is coming to get his astrakhan hat, and he might even get a keg of vodka too. They are turning our way. They are trying to strike bargains because they know we are moving up and you are moving down...
...shall go back to the South Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice at 10:30at night, I hasten to add instead of 6:30 as at present." On money: "We both try to live up to the rules of easy wealth. Elizabeth treats it all as fairy money. She scatters it. I am pretty cute business-wise. Some time...
...this play. It is horrible, cruel, and heartrending. But beneath it all, there are two buoyancies. One is Solzhenitsyn's indestructible humanity. The other is that this is a game, the grimmest game men can play: survival. A Polish sausage, a woman's body, a bottle of vodka-these are the chips. At this gaming table, to lose...
...impurities, but insisted that polywater continues to exhibit its strange properties after the contaminants have been removed. Deryagin and his supporters will have a hard time proving their case until more polywater exists. Currently, the total amount available from all the world's labs would hardly fill a vodka glass. Davis, for one, doubts whether anyone should sweat over the problem any longer. "American scientists have been wasting their time studying this subject," he wrote in Chemical & Engineering News, "unless, of course, it can be defined as a topic of water pollution and waste disposal...