Word: au
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes things pleasanter when traveling abroad. "It is no longer necessary to preserve British prestige. The loud, peremptory tone of command, once obligatory, may be dropped to a cringing mumble." Bravery is never demanded of citizens of second-class powers: "The day is over when a single cry of Au secours! put six British swimmers in the sea as one man. Any secours that's wanted can be furnished by Americans-or Russians." And one need never again dread "the anguish of handing over a fistful of lire, conscious of being done but fearful to make a scene. Make...
...crowd. Lifar rushed up to him, theatrically flung a scented handkerchief at the marquis' exquisitely shod feet. Painfully, the ancient marquis bent down, picked up the handkerchief, flourished it in Lifar's face while photographers' flashbulbs flared. Said a bystander: "I thought they were embracing." Au contraire...
...shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years old, unveiled and unashamed...
...labor with their first child. Talamas rushed into the streets at 2:30 a.m. to seek a specialist. Police arrested him because he lacked a curfew pass, released him after a few hours. The cops learned that earlier that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity...
...countries was in the aftermaths. In Honduras the junta leader declared his task ended, announced that he was taking a long vacation. But in Haiti the junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...