Word: waiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mail. He also walked to work. Coming out of his two-story stucco house on the capital's north side one day last week, he struck out as usual past the corner grocery and crossed the Parque Morazán toward the palace. In the park, a fat waiter passed him. "Buenos dias, Don Otilio," said the waiter. The President of Costa Rica tipped...
...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
What Will the Waiter Think? Psychiatrist Seliger does not favor prohibition, because he thinks it is against human nature, and besides, it gets no results. But he would like to see "a concerted program of education against heavy social drinking, beamed at the reading and listening public-including the 'teen and twenty-agers-and supported as a public health service...
Perhaps, he says, "through various opinion-molding media, we could change the prevailing social attitude about heavy social drinking, and especially about daytime drinking, so that instead of its being considered obligatory, or 'smart,' even' the waiter would look astonished and disapproving...