Word: praga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under-the-teacup tribute...
...first, faint light of dawn silhouetted rugged peaks, then picked out the barracks, the ammunition depot and the sandbagged trench surrounding a hilltop army outpost called Praga in the Colombian Andes. Praga's commander, a lieutenant, was not there; he and most of his platoon had been called away to chase cattle thieves, leaving a corporal in charge. A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept...
...guerrillas, foiled in their quest for arms and ammunition, had melted away. Avenging troops, pouring grimly in toward Praga last week, were able to round up and kill only eight of the outlaws...
...Colombian Temper. The clash at Praga, hot, fierce, and fought to the bitter end, was typical of this strange, confused, nearly meaningless war. Its causes are rooted deep in Colombian history and temperament, a striking national indifference to death and lust for combat going back to the battles and matings of the fearless Spanish conquistadors and the warlike native Chibcha Indians. Since Colombia became independent in 1819, the bloodshed has come mainly from Liberals fighting Conservatives, often in protest against a political defeat...
...without humor. "There are no funny stories about Gomulka," says Peasant Leader Stanislaw Banczyk. He is essentially a lonely man. He and his wife Zofia, a member of an old Russian Bolshevik family (purged by Stalin), live quietly in a tiny apartment in the Warsaw suburb of Praga, have no social life. A 26-year-old son, an engineer, lives in the same house. Gomulka's sole recreation: walking his dog around the block...