Word: vodka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Last week, in West Berlin for a round of goodbyes prior to his retirement from active army service, Clarke suggested a farewell meeting to Konev. Over caviar and vodka, the pair talked in the Potsdam Soviet officers' club, then wound up their four-hour discussion in the U.S. villa. Out of the visit, to Clarke's surprise, came an apology from Konev for the shooting incident, along with a friendly leave-taking handshake. Next day, by mutual agreement, the U.S. and Soviet military missions were reopened and back in business again...
...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...
Most of the time the dame is socked in with vodka or pot, and the no-talent hero tows her around like a whale on a flatcar...