Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Host Molotov was plainly irritated at his fellow party Presidium member, First Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who, despite repeated shushings, insisted on proposing toast after toast, while waspish Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan heckled him from the side. At one point Kaganovich, a former Ukrainian commissar, called the company's attention to "the great friendship of all peoples of the So viet Union," listing the Soviet states with one pointed omission. "What about the Georgians?" snapped Armenian Mikoyan, an old friend of Georgian Lavrenty Beria who had been arrested four months before. "Oh yes," said Kaganovich without enthusiasm, "the Georgians...
...vial of the stuff in his pocket, got a bottle of champagne, called on his parents and joyously announced that he had got a job. He poured three glasses of wine, added cyanide to two of them, and asked his parents to join him in a toast to his future. They drank and toppled to the floor...
...birthday of the late President A. Lawrence Lowell, which occurred yesterday (Sunday, December 13), perhaps passed unnoticed except for a few of us who were closely associated with him in what he called his "great adventure" and who stopped long enough to drink a silent toast to his memory. One has merely to look about Harvard, however, to see how much the College and the present-day undergraduate are beneficiaries in 1953 of Mr. Lowell's vision, leadership and guidance...
...Toast of the Town...
That afternoon, after a brief rest and luncheon preceded by a prim round of sherry, Ike and Mamie emerged from the forbidding mansion to plant two ceremonial maple trees on the frozen lawn. That night, at a glittering, full-dress state dinner, the President was toasted and in turn proposed the toast to the Queen. The President wore the British Order of Merit, awarded him by the late King George...