Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week all the works, including the Russians', were up in place in the heat-and humidity-controlled museum, and all hands were sufficiently recovered to toast the new exhibition (in champagne) at its opening reception. Said Montreal Art Professor Edwy Cooke, another member of the committee: "We wanted it to be the most important show ever to cross the ocean, the best arts show ever in North America, and we succeeded. When I look at it, it's just too good to be true...
...slanted to fit in with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these chalk-white scrambled eggs as dry as leather...
...that the U.S. is planning a 12,000-man reduction in its Seventh Army. Humphrey heard no complaints about it. During a two-hour luncheon chat with Charles de Gaulle in Paris, the Minnesotan brought France's phlegmatic President to the edge of tears with an ad-libbed toast lauding his place in history...
...pitch camp for two weeks on the Isle of Wight. They leave half their supplies behind on the boat, neglect to put the kettle on for tea; on the second morning, all that is left to feed the whole Brownie troop is eight slices of toast. In the brief pauses between muddled meals, the Guides manage to lose each other, usually during a hilarious drill called "stalking," in which they are all over the heath like big-rumped, slightly spastic tiger kittens. Author Glyn is a connoisseur of chaos...
...Each speaks a private language, packed with private symbols as inscrutable to the other characters as to us. It is a measure of their cardboard substance that we are not surprised if any one of them gives a silly giggle and drops to the stage, dead as cold toast...