Word: ah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowds on official tours. Answered De Gaulle: "Keep in mind one thing, sir. De Gaulle interests me only as a historic personage." While reading him the order of the day during one of his provincial tours, a local prefect got no farther than "11 o'clock-Mass." "Ah," interrupted the President, "Mass is my favorite ceremony!" Dreamily, De Gaulle explained: "Yes, church is the only place where, when someone addresses me, I don't have to answer...
...cocktail party two years ago, a pretty girl glided up to the handsomely mustachioed auto racer. "Ah. Mr. Hill?" she cooed. "I'm Graham Hill," said the driver, smiling hopefully. "Oh, I'm sorry." said the confused young thing, backing away. "I thought you were the famous Mr. Hill...
...minutes and 46 seconds past 110n the morning of Sept. 1, 1923, Mayor Hidejiro Nagata of Tokyo noticed that the electric light that hung from his ceiling had begun to swing from side to side. "Ah," said the mayor, "earthquake...
Five Weeks in a Balloon. "Sirrr," proclaims an intrepid Scotsman, "Ah prro-pose to fly in a balloon fourrr thousand mayles overrr unexplorred jungle...
...haired, mustachioed Albert Einstein playing the violin. Most of the 82 charcoal, pastel, chalk and red pencil drawings in the show demonstrated Pasternak's talent for capturing a fleeting moment of gentleness and humanity-a talent that made many an aging visitor stop, catch his breath and murmur: "Ah, that is the way I knew him too." Nosed Out by a Girl. The show in Munich was brought together this month to honor the centennial of Pasternak's birth in Odessa in 1862. His ambitious parents wanted him to be a doctor, scratched together enough to send...