Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castries radioed GHQ: "The violent barrage from mortars and artillery continues. The Viets are infiltrating massively through the strongpoints on the west." De Castries also spoke briefly to his wife, Jacqueline, who waited with the generals for the outcome. "Have faith for our wounded," he asked her. Then, "Au revoir...
...Au revoir, mon général. Au revoir, mes camarades. Vive la France!" Then De Castries ordered artillery fire from Isabelle against his own command post...
...enemy has infiltrated right through our central bastion. Munitions are short. Our resistance is about to be submerged. The Vietminh are only a few yards from the radio where I speak. I have given orders for maximum demolitions. The ammo depots are going up already. Au revoir...
...spectacular culmination of a deplorable British conviction : that any rich aristocrat who wanted to become an officer should be able to buy a colonelcy in a crack regiment. The three aristocrats who may be called the villains of the Charge of the Light Brigade, and whose life stories Au thor Woodham-Smith traces in fascinating detail...
Last week the Russian delegation disclosed that Vishinsky was sailing for home May 5 on the Queen Elizabeth. Was it adieu or just au revoir? The New York Times frontpaged a report that he was ill, weary, tired of the U.S. and eager to retire. He is nearing 71. Vishinsky himself would not comment (except to squawk that the Times, which said he was 71, never got the facts right), but he is reportedly resentful that he was not invited to Geneva, which, more than the Berlin Conference, concerns subjects supposedly his specialty, such as Korea...