Toast
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Michael Berryman was good in his role as a standover man for the Tanaka clan, and finally a
toast
to Lee Van Cleef who plays the father of the three brothers, who is one of the last of the old fashioned tough guys.
The Chinese economy has been growing at such a breathtaking annual pace – 9.5% in the year ending in the second quarter of 2005 – that it is the
toast
of the world, an apparent inspiration for developing countries everywhere.
The
toast
fell flat; the room was silent.
But while Trump may have overshot the mark, the idea that the US delegation should sit with glasses untouched during a
toast
also strikes the wrong tone.
When I represented George W. Bush’s administration in the six-party talks in 2005, I had written instructions not to participate in any dinners or other social engagements with the North Koreans, nor even to raise a glass in any
toast
that included North Korean representatives.
We should
toast
the likely successes: some form of financial-product safety commission will be established; more derivative trading will move to exchanges and clearing houses from the shadows of the murky “bespoke” market; and some of the worst mortgage practices will be restricted.
So the question facing Americans as they
toast
their good times is this: If and when a correction occurs, will it take the shape of a stock market crash, as occurred in 1987, or will it take the shape of a slow and painful descent, as in Japan in the 1990s?
But, before leaders who embraced austerity policies open the champagne and
toast
themselves, they should examine where we are and consider the near-irreparable damage that these policies have caused.
Joking about ScienceITHACA, NEW YORK – An apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897: “To the electron: may it never be of use to anyone!”Pure mathematicians supposedly tell a similar joke about their profession.
“A toast!” someone exclaims.
Taking Back GlobalizationDAVOS – The World Economic Forum’s annual gathering is normally little more than a
toast
to the benefits of increasing global GDP, trade, and investment.
In the long blockade against Napoleonic France, captains in Britain's Royal Navy would on the eve of battle drink the following toast: "Confusion to the French!"
MOSCOW – Chinese President Xi Jinping was the
toast
of Russia last week.
For the next four days he lived a simple and blameless life on thin captain's biscuits (I mean that the biscuits were thin, not the captain) and soda-water; but, towards Saturday, he got uppish, and went in for weak tea and dry toast, and on Monday he was gorging himself on chicken broth.
And Montmorency, standing on his hind legs, before the window, peering out into the night, gave a short bark of decided concurrence with the
toast.
Mr. Wharton poured out a glass of wine for the lady who sat on his right hand, and, pushing the bottle to a guest, said with a low bow,-"We are to be honored with a
toast
from Miss Singleton."
"Miss Peyton, will you favor us with a toast?" cried the master of the house, anxious to stop this dialogue.
"I drink your toast, Captain Lawton, though I greatly distrust your construction of activity," said the surgeon.
'Well,' says his sister, 'you can say no harm of her, that I am sure, so 'tis no matter what you have been talking about.''Nay,' says he, ''tis so far from talking harm of her, that we have been talking a great deal of good, and a great many fine things have been said of Mrs. Betty, I assure you; and particularly, that she is the handsomest young woman in Colchester; and, in short, they begin to
toast
her health in the town.''I wonder at you, brother,' says the sister.
Nevertheless, he managed to rise once and propose a
toast.
He swallowed the toast, filled his stomach and little by little became tranquillised.
I always propose that
toast
to the company, and drink Mary to myself.
There were the real solid silver teapot, cream-ewer, and sugar-basin, on the table, and real silver spoons to stir the tea with, and real china cups to drink it out of, and plates of the same, to hold the cakes and
toast
in.
'I hope not,' said Mr. Pott, actuated, as he spoke, by a wish that his visitor would choke himself with the morsel of dry
toast
which he was raising to his lips at the moment, and so terminate his stay effectually.
Come, gentlemen,' continued Mr. Pickwick, still retaining his hold upon the jar, 'a
toast.
The
toast
was drunk with loud acclamations.
In honour of this
toast
Mr. Weller imbibed at a draught, at least two-thirds of a newly-arrived pint, and handed it over to his son, to dispose of the remainder, which he instantaneously did.
Then little Mrs. Cluppins proposed as a toast, 'Success to Bardell agin Pickwick'; and then the ladies emptied their glasses in honour of the sentiment, and got very talkative directly.
A small tray of tea-things was arranged on the table; a plate of hot buttered
toast
was gently simmering before the fire; and the red-nosed man himself was busily engaged in converting a large slice of bread into the same agreeable edible, through the instrumentality of a long brass toasting-fork.
Beside him stood a glass of reeking hot pine-apple rum-and-water, with a slice of lemon in it; and every time the red-nosed man stopped to bring the round of
toast
to his eye, with the view of ascertaining how it got on, he imbibed a drop or two of the hot pine-apple rum-and-water, and smiled upon the rather stout lady, as she blew the fire.
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