Word: bistro
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...were full; next minute, people were scattering in all directions at the sound of incoming shells or a long, looping machine-gun burst from a distant weapon. Often a barrage caught Katanga's loyal whites of the home guard in mid-Scotch or mid-meal at an Elisabethville bistro. "Ah, it is time to go," shrugged one 24-year-old as the crump of nearby gunfire sent the lunchtime customers to the floor at one restaurant. Shouldering his rifle, he left in the direction of the shooting...
...that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio announcer, Martial de Villemandy, who was quickly arrested at a village bistro not far from the scene of the crime...
...picturesque eleven-room chalet, and they all moved in. Along with them was Medical Student Jean-Simon Rotman. who once lived in the same rooming house as Raymond. He. too. soon found a girl: a Franco-Japanese stripper named Mitsouko. The three couples lived it up in bar and bistro. When Ingelise Bodin was chosen "Miss Courcheval" at a nearby resort, they celebrated with a restaurant party. Raymond was amused to discover that among fellow vacationers at Mégéve were little Eric and his parents. They frequently passed in the street or sat near one another...
...Browne has another project in mind. He wants to set up in Paris the kind of romantically naughty bistro that he thinks every U.S. tourist dreams about finding there-but never does...
...most unwelcome guest. Said a Cologne industrialist at his campsite: "I look upon camping as a denial of the materialism that has sprung up in Germany. Outdoors we can turn our backs on our material gains and try to find the answers." Snort Italian shopkeepers and French bistro owners: The Germans are campers because they are pfennig pinchers...