Word: arrasate
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As strategists, the miners turned out to be worthy opponents. Though tempted to strike earlier because of the swiftly rising cost of living, the miners held off until France's coal stocks had been used up by the bitter cold of the past months. When the strike was only...
With only one exception-onetime M.R.P. Premier Pierre Pflimlin, who dropped 60% of his support-leaders of the non-Communist opposition either were defeated outright or lagged far behind U.N.R. candidates. Independent Paul Reynaud. 84, last prewar Premier and formerly a supporter of Charles de Gaulle, was badly beaten by...
Jean Bodel, who wrote the play in about 1200 (in Medieval French, in octosyllabic lines, in rhymed couplets, in Arras, and, whenever he could afford the wine of his native Arras, in a state of intoxication) robbed the traditional Miracle Play of any seriousness it may have had. His motto...
To revert once again to the program notes, "Jacques Bersani and T. Morris rendered into almost modern French, pretty much metrical" the original version of the play, and very elegant and amusing almost metrical modern French it is. They kept the octosyllabic line, the often complicated rhyme scheme, and, most...
The tall, shambling French aristocrat was a good pilot, in Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not...