Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food, always good, but never fancy, attracts a capacity crowd three times a day and a small soda fountain at one end of the counter caters to fair crowd of chronic in-between-mealers. Bill prides himself on his food and says that it is the home cooking that is the secret of his success, but the crowd gathers at meal time no less to hear his colorful chatter than to sample his table d'hote...
...attention at breakfast time. Men over forty get the compliment, "Hello, young man," each time they enter, whereas the downy-cheeked Freshman is always addressed as "Mr." and is treated with extreme respect. Bill knows each of his customers by name and does most of the work behind the counter. He rises at five thirty, works thirteen hours a day and is always in a good humor. The Merle is justly called "Bill's Place." Because Bill is the whole show and he's good theatre any time whether you're hungry...
...Year broke, Adolf Hitler stood before his people to speak to them of 1943. The Führer's hair was greying and there were new lines in his face. The fear of defeat was in the air in Germany; he must find words to counter it. 1943 was an ominous year, the fourth year of the war. A generation ago, Germans remembered, the fourth year of war brought defeat and disaster...
...United States boys have come thousands of miles to help us win this war." >"Remember that British people have a reputation for being standoffish, and anything you can do to dispel this illusion will help to foster good feeling. . . . The first time an American approaches the counter and asks 'Howya, baby?' you will probably think he is being impudent. By the time several dozen men have said it, you will come to the conclusion that all Americans are 'fresh.' Yet to them it will be merely the normal conversational opening, just as you might...
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA--Powerful German counter-blows have dislodged the British from briefly-held hill positions southwest of Bizerte in an all-day battle emphasizing that the high stakes in Tunisia will be bitterly contested inch-by-inch, official reports said tonight...