Word: snack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pray! Hard of hearing now, stumbling over questions as translators worked with him in French, the last living participant in the all-but-forgotten plot described the fateful night of Dec. 29, 1916. He invited Rasputin to a midnight snack in the basement of his Moika palace, the prince told the court. There, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, Youssoupoff fed Rasputin cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide "sufficient to kill several men instantly." Rasputin merely "coughed," looked "drunk," and asked the prince to sing. Appalled, and in no mood for warbling, the prince ran upstairs...
...minutes later, Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 44, approached a U.S. Army sergeant outside the snack bar of the nearby American-sector PX, identified himself as the chief of the Polish Military Mission to West Berlin, and asked for political asylum...
Room & Board. All this success has only whetted Restaurant Associates' appetite for new and versatile ventures. The company sprang from humble beginnings as Manhattan's low-priced Riker's coffee-shop chain, changed its name to Restaurant Associates in 1945 and expanded into concession snack bars and cafeterias for the military. With that background, Restaurant Associates feels that it can do something to vitalize the Waldorf chain without compromising the attractive image of its expensive restaurants...
There should be kitchens for eight to ten people instead of one large kitchen for the entire house. There were also some requests for a snack bar that would be open at all times...
...provided-though for different purposes-by U.S. AID funds, its sides marked with the agency's symbol of clasped hands. Out come the carefully collected stores of cobble stones, brick halves and rocks. And then the fun begins: curses and shattered glass, bonfires and blazing auto mobiles, looted snack bars, shredded books, perhaps even an American woman to kick...