Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Office. Burgess took to journalism, joined the BBC, transferred to a propaganda section of the War Office with the outbreak of World War II. Maclean was already carving out a brilliant career in the Paris embassy and spending his spare moments at Left Bank spots. At the Café Flore he met a pretty American girl named Melinda Marling, who amused him by smoking cigars. They were married just before the fall of France, and went on together to London, and four years later to Washington...
...writing "Dream Street," a once-a-week Broadway column, for the New York Daily News in 1951, Drama Critic Robert M. (for McPhierson) Sylvester saw little future for Broadway columnists. The migration to the suburbs, he reasoned, was not only killing off nightclubs but the demand for warmed-over café gossip as well. Columnist Sylvester was too pessimistic. When busy Telecaster Ed Sullivan cut his columns to two-a-week last May, the News upped "Dream Street" to five-a-week. By last week, it was syndicated in 30 papers...
...urgency and dedication of her appeal took the city by storm. Newspapers named her the "Fiancée of Death" and called her story the "Second Song of Bernadete." President Café Filho made a personal visit to promise the government's "moral and material support." And Marta Rocha, runner-up in the 1954 Miss Universe contest and honored symbol of Brazilian beauty, went to see the dark-haired girl, wept, and next day broadcast an appeal for funds to build the "Hospital of Bernadete" for care of cancer victims...
...funds to spend for ballots and more effective methods of distributing them. Last week, in the record time of 15 minutes, the Senate unanimously passed a bill requiring the use of uniform ballots listing all candidates. Three minutes after the measure landed on his desk, President João Café Filho signed it into law. Reason for the haste: military leaders had demanded ballot reform, and the politicos wanted to avoid giving them any excuse to intervene in the presidential election scheduled...
Builder, Manager, Fighter. With Vargas' interim successor, President Joāo Café Filho, barred by the constitution from succeeding himself, the voters of Brazil have three main presidential candidates to choose from...