Word: alsatian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alsatian firm, in fact, built the locomotives for France's first railway...
...Tulip divided dog lovers there into two neat halves: they either loved it or loathed it. Both responses are acceptable. There is no denying that Bachelor Ackerley has described with great literary skill, affection and wit the ties that often bind man to dog-in this case an Alsatian bitch. There is also no denying that Ackerley endlessly dwells on what some circles consider a dog's least lovable proclivities: elimination and procreation...
...Mozambicanos resent. But last week his puppet President, Rear Admiral Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomas, concluded a two-week swing through the country in an effort to prove that Lisbon really cares. From the Indian Ocean port of Lourenço Marques (where he reviewed 5,000 troops and 200 Alsatian, Doberman, boxer and Labrador guard dogs) to the villages of the Limpopo River Valley, the sprightly, 69-year-old President met with rousing receptions and blizzards of confetti. But for all the outward signs of welcome, Tomás was taking no chances. "One bullet for the President now will...
Back to Paris. In 1932 Couve married Jacqueline Schweisguth, the slim, brunette daughter of an Alsatian Protestant family related to the oil-rich Schlimbergers of Texas. Jacqueline's father was also an inspector of finances, but Couve protests it was "just a coincidence." Couve rose rapidly to become head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan...
This difference reflects a larger discrepancy between the two versions. To show his state of congenital wretchedness, Voltaire makes Candide a bastard; Carbonnaux makes him an Alsatian. The countries Voltaire mentions only symbolize universal evils hike treachery and regicide. Carbonnaux specifically attacks Germany, Russia, Farouk, Argintina and imperialists. Voltaire describes imaginary places, like Eldorado; Carbonnaux invents nothing. Voltaire was inspired by the earthquake in Lisbon, a natural disaster; Carbonnaux announces that he was inspired by the bombing of Hiroshima...