Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myself, but the attendants held me. I dressed myself and the attendants came after me with the chair, but I insisted on walking. There were moments when my legs felt like jelly; I felt I'd never make it. but I did. And I stopped in the nearest café for a Pernod. I was ravenous...
...francs last year to 61,000 francs two weeks ago. From Hassi Messaoud and neighboring Algerian fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells: 2.6 billion bbl.) Frenchmen sitting in Cafés du Commerce all over France, hoping that this wealth might cure France's chronic foreign-trade deficit and boost capital investment in North Africa, called it the "Miracle of the Sahara...
...Songs of Bobby Short (Atlantic LP). A witty and irreverent survey of standard amatory numbers (Speaking of Love, So Near and Yet So Far) by one of the most offbeat café singer-pianists now operating. The style ranges from a belting, parade-beat Hooray for Love to a lilting Let's Fall in Love with a light stress on the leer in the lyric...
...other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion. Heading back to the U.S. with...
Church Ablaze. Suddenly the solemn procession of six red-robed bishops and more than 100 bearded priests was interrupted by a burst of gunfire from the café. In a moment the entire village square was ablaze with gunfire. Inside the church a covey of his kinsmen surrounded Father Dweihi, and some of them took bullets aimed at him. When at last a detachment of troops arrived from Zghorta, ten Dweihis, two Franjiehs and two Moawads lay dead. Four other innocent villagers died as well, and the wounded totaled about...