Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spoke up to save I.S.C.M. They had trouble getting their work performed at home, and wanted the same kind of "protection and encouragement" that the older generation had had. The delegates of Australia, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and the U.S. withdrew to a cafe and held a caucus. Their proposal, which the society later accepted: a five-man executive board to keep the I.S.C.M. going for another year. The average age of the new board members was 31-20 years younger than that of last year's officers...
...bank, drew out 485,000 Belgian francs ($9,700) of his employers' money in crackling banknotes, and with his usual care and sense of awe stuffed them into his briefcase. He felt giddy; his hand was sweaty, his throat dry. Clutching the briefcase, he hastened into a cafe, gulped a beer. In other cafes he had other beers, finally switched to port. Walking on rosy clouds, he passed a sandwichman who handed him an advertising circular. Suddenly the dream crystallized. Said Maxime: "You have given me something...
Spaghetti Boom. In Garland, Tex., Fred Harris put up a sign in his cafe: "Potato dinner $1.35. Big Idaho potatoes. Rest of meal free." Elsewhere, other restaurants began offering substitutes. Manhattan's elegant Chambord restaurant prepared to fly in potatoes from wherever they could find them...
...court considered, and passed sentence: three years for Madeleine, five for Léon, both suspended. As jurors and spectators streamed out into the spring sunshine and crossed to a cafe for aperitifs, many expected to see one of the Schneiders back in court real soon...
...Cafe éIstanbul (Sun. 9:15 p.m., ABC). Drama of intrigue, starring Marlene Dietrich...