Word: vodka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gang of crooks led by the chief of the Tselinograd Trade Board faked reports, rigged phony prices, and sold meat, butter and automobiles on the black market; in Pavlodar, three men managed to make off with no fewer than 300,000 bottles of wine and vodka. The entire party and government leadership of the Kzyl Orda region masterminded a ring of cattle rustlers: the local Communist chief organized blackjack games and set off an "epidemic of gambling...
Actually, Eva Six was really Eva Klein. After the Nazis murdered her father, though, the family adopted the name of Kennedi (apparently a centuries-old aristocratic name in Hungary which is obviously unsuited to the screen). Using 20 bottles of vodka for bribes, she fled Hungary during the revolution in 1956 and migrated to the United States...
...stewardess, her nose peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban rum he had bought at the airport, and things got livelier...
...Australian acquaintances, Soviet Embassy First Secretary Ivan Feodorovich Skripov seemed a likable sort, as Soviet diplomats go. He was a good talker, an enthusiastic partygoer and a back-slapping practical joker who often laced his guests' beer with vodka, guffawing when they caught on. But amiable Ivan was more than a spoofer. He was also...
...boss's house, Orson Bean runs Ford a close second in the evening's whoopstakes. Bean moves as if he were being ejected from a toaster, and his voice box is some sort of faulty dishwasher. He and Ford pair off with the unpredictable felicity of vodka and to mato juice, and in Act III they tie on a mutual bender that makes that overdone theatrical filler, the drunk scene, seem like a creative inspiration in mischief...