Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslav crowd spread quickly through Gorizia's shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, filled their shopping bags with food, wine, stockings, towels, lipsticks and medical supplies. Yugoslav housewives exhausted the supply of brooms in a matter of minutes. In a sidewalk cafe, one elderly Yugoslav said: "This is the first real coffee I have had in three years. I must drink it slowly, or it will poison...
Well, You See, Judge ... In Vancouver, B.C., Robert Merkle was sentenced to a year in jail for breaking into a cafe, despite his contention that he I) stumbled against the window, smashing two panes; 2.) entered "to leave my name and address"; 3) "was looking in the till for a pencil" when caught. In Chicago, John Moore, charged with trying to filch a policeman's wallet, explained: "I was sleepy, and my hand just kept moving toward his pocket...
...Mozart. For 30 years, thousands of visitors have flocked each summer to the ancient town which sprawls under its towering 11th Century fortress on the Mönchsberg, to file reverently through the house where Mozart was born, tramp across flag-bedecked Mozart bridge, sip wine in the Mozart cafe, take their clothes to the Mozart laundry...
...Coca-Cola Co. dozens of cases of pop. A truckload of hay was deposited on the circus grounds to feed the elephants. F. Bam Morrison sold $250 worth of advertising for the circus program; while he was working at it, the hotel donated his room, the Wide-A-Wake Cafe his board. For treating him, two doctors got free passes to the show. Then Morrison left town, and Bohn's United Circus never showed. But Wetumka decided to have a celebration, anyway. It declared a "Sucker Day," during which Boy Scouts will serve the 100 Ibs. of hot dogs...
This year Headmaster Clark decided to take his plan one step farther. Last week he had 14 of his boys in Paris, starting off each morning with a breakfast of croissants and cafe au lait, studying four hours in a Sorbonne classroom, then fanning out over the city to see the sights. Everything was according to the Kiski plan: concentrating on a single subject, the boys had begun to handle French with assurance...