Word: apaches
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...French town of Apach, De Gaulle boarded the carnation-decked pleasure boat Strasbourg, along with West German President Heinrich Lübke and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, to begin the four-hour cruise along the Moselle to Trier, across the German border. There, De Gaulle hailed the project as one of "the first fruits" of the recent Franco-German rapprochement. After "so much pain to which this river was a sad witness for centuries," said he, "we have been able to sail down it together, without meeting any resistance except that of ribbons...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
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