Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution has vastly sped bowling's rise from the old alleys in seedy, down-at-the-heel side streets, among pool halls and beer parlors. It has long since nudged into bright new homes, often near the best suburbs. Modern "family bowling centers'" are embellished with cafés, drugstores, beauty parlors, nurseries for the children. As a final embellishment of respectability the Bowling Congress last week was urging all fans to join in a quiet campaign to replace the "alley" and its back-door connotation, with the more genteel word "lane...
Next day, as Nasser's "Voice of the Arabs" broadcast "Arab Victory!" to the refugee camp and café radios of the Middle East, his general rattled into Gaza with a task force of 72 (including 50 MPs, ten army officers). Sending a liaison officer round to notify General Burns that he would be wanting the police station for his own headquarters, Latif rushed off to press $288 into the hands of Moushref's refugee father. "You all know where the UNEF is going to be," he told reporters, with a wave of his hand toward the Israeli...
...Loewy, who says he will open a gemmaux gallery in Manhattan. Gemmaux have also gone commercial. One of the more lurid experiences in the Paris subway these days is the spectacle of Van Gogh's Bridge at Aries touting the virtues of a washing machine, and his Night Café exhorting people to drink Perrier water...
...wake of Dictator Francisco Franco's government "crisis" and Cabinet shuffle (TIME, March 11), the café wits in Spain last week were passing around a punning version of the old Latin saw, Finis coronat opus (The end crowns the work). Crisis coronat Opus, they said, and the Opus they meant was Opus Dei-a little-known organization of Roman Catholic priests and laymen which, it was rumored, had nine or ten members in Franco's new 18-man Cabinet...
...point of view by arguing with him," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman. "The most we could hope to do was to open his eyes." Some were hard to convince. One Egyptian refused to believe Israel was not starving until he ordered a ten-egg omelette in a café, was served it by the owner without comment...