Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineers and architects) and his Egyptian "guest" in a tailor shop amiably debating the fit or fashion of assorted suits or shirts. The host took his Egyptian wherever he wanted to go, to see whatever he wanted to see. Some went to the movies, to concerts, sipped coffee in cafés, went shopping in Haifa or Jerusalem. Others visited factories, cooperative villages and kibbutzim...
...When Suzanne, at 18, gave birth to Maurice, the man most generally assumed to be the father was a no-account Sunday painter and alcoholic named Boissy whom Suzanne had met at the revels held at Montmartre's Chat Noir café. Suzanne herself was never very specific-and perhaps could not be. But last week Maurice's widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, decided to erase the doubt about daddy. After a festive municipal lunch in her honor at Limoges, where Lucie was pushing her recently published book, Maurice Utrillo, My Husband, she announced that Utrillo's real...
...from their cars and lynching them, jeering at the U.S. consulate near the funeral church and spitting on its walls. The Moslems retaliated. Bombs exploded in four churches during Sunday services. On New Year's Day a bomb exploded in Algiers' swankiest hotel. Others were tossed at cafés all over Algeria; cyclists were machine-gunned on the road. The one-day total: 13 killed, 23 wounded. Next day, after a local train was derailed east of Oran, rescuers found the bodies of six Europeans in the wreckage; two of the women had been raped and disemboweled...
...captured Mohammed ben Bella, feuded like Chicago-style gangs over the privilege of shaking down the city's 80,000 Algerians for contributions. One Algerian objected that he did not want to take sides; his body was fished out of the Seine a few days later. Café owners who contributed to the National Liberation Front had their stocks smashed by Hadj supporters. In 1956, 86 Algerians were murdered in this bitter civil war in Paris, and the rival gangs celebrated New Year's Day with a fusillade that killed six more...
...women often wearing slacks and boots, they are too busy struggling to live. There are long queues for buses and trolley cars. There are endless day-long queues at the meat and bread stores for the basic food available: round loaves of dark bread and long Polish sausages. The cafés of Warsaw are crowded...