Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Finally they out the big "wedding" cake. Nat and Lil kiss. It is a long kiss, and she shuts her eyes. The accordion plays "Here Comes the Bride" again and many stand up to toast...
Last week in Warsaw, in a dramatic step toward conciliation, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski and his West German counterpart, Walter Scheel, initialed a treaty designed to restore normal relations between the two countries and capped it with a champagne toast. The treaty, said Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn, would be "a liberating step toward a better Europe-a Europe in which borders no longer divide. That is what the youth of our countries expect and we no longer want to burden them with the past. Instead, we want to give them a new beginning...
...come U.S. small airplanes, light machinery and computers. Steps of reprisal would be taken jointly by the six members of the Common Market, with Britain probably joining in. On a visit to the U.S. last month, Ralf Dahrendorf, the Common Market's top trade executive, raised an ironic toast to Wilbur Millsas the man who had done most recently to promote European unity. The threats have begun to weigh on some Congressmen, who realize that U.S. exports produce more income than the auto or home-building industry. The nation's exports this year are running...
Selby deftly handles a protracted episode of comic business with a plate of toast in the second act. But there are a few tiny points he should be more careful about. For instance, he slightly anticipates being stopped by the minister, when he ought not react until he actually feels the hand...
...Russia, where he endures the blatant irony of having a huge salad of royalty rubles thrust on him, Bech and the head of the Soviet Writers' Union joust with vodka glasses: "He toasts Jack London, I toast Pushkin. He does Hemingway, I do Turgenev. I do Nabokov, he counters with John Reed." Elsewhere, Bech vainly attempts to charm Yevtushenko by describing his own position in America not as a literary lion but as a "graying, furtively stylish rat indifferently permitted to gnaw and roam behind the wainscoting of a firetrap about to be demolished anyway...