Word: delicatessen
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...many ways, he was a typical boy. He loved animals, especially cocker spaniels-and parakeets, which he kept in his bedroom, flying free. "There would be birds flying around and birdseed all over the floor," recalls Leah, now 62 and the owner-operator of a kosher delicatessen in West Los Angeles. "I'd just reach in to get the dirty clothes...
Quarreling among top agency officials sometimes slows down operations. As a result, the UNHCR'S chief of mission in Pakistan, Roman Kohaut, is retiring in disgust. "I'm fed up with the mess in Geneva," Kohaut told TIME'S Wibo Vandelinde last month. "UNHCR resembles a delicatessen that has grown into a huge supermarket but has never adapted its management. Geneva refuses to listen to urgent advice from the field...
...college would be proud to call its own. During the 1981-82 school year, Weston's 750 or so high school students will be able to pick and choose from among 31 different English courses, 20 courses in mathematics, 27 different foreign and ancient language offerings, and a delicatessen of diverting electives ranging - from interior design, film and the principles of collage and batik to something called "Advanced Foods...
...research building. The other was Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they met in a Waikiki delicatessen for a midnight snack. Gossiping about their work while munching on corned-beef sandwiches, the two discovered that their research dovetailed in a way that opened up some highly intriguing possibilities...
...fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical wire that short-circuited above the kitchen of the hotel's ground-floor delicatessen. According to Clark County Fire Chief Roy Parrish, the blaze may have smoldered for at least an hour before spreading to a catwalk on the next floor used by hotel guards to monitor the gambling in the casino. The flames raced along the catwalk and then swept down and back across the casino. Except for the twelve people killed in the casino, most of the deaths took place on the upper floors, when thick, black...