Word: au
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tourists. Though Lozach does not intend to return to Gourin ("My kids were born here, and let's face it: it's an easier buck"), many Gourinois do. Samuel Daouphars, 54, was a chef in Manhattan's Au Pêcheur restaurant for ten years before going home with his bundle. Now, like most of the town's 1,000 returned natives, he and his wife own a $20,000 blue and white stone house in Gourin, busy themselves raising flowers and vegetables. "They work hard as hell in America," complains Daouphars. "And all that...
Three young ladies, au natural (sic), were being chased around the room by two Harvard lads intent upon study. The bare facts indicated that the boys were likewise nude. And not too sober. The girls were over and under the beds...
...au falt to vote Levine...
Written with Gallic asperity, the novel is composed of a series of bittersweet, Boccaccio-like fables celebrating unambiguously the joys of heterosexual love. They are told by an engaging, disreputable journalist named Jean Macaque, who produces racy copy on order for a Parisian scandal sheet, Coq au Vin, and is a connoisseur of fine women...
...guarantee an S.R.O. crowd for their execution, Duvalier ordered all businesses closed and schools let out; backlands peasants were trucked into Port-au-Prince. As TV cameras recorded the scene, a black and white Jeep pulled up to the cemetery, and out stepped the two victims. They were tied tightly to two pine stakes. "Traditional proceedings were scrupulously respected," announced Le Matin, a government newspaper. "There were three volleys of Springfields, and submachine guns, and three coups de grace." After which, the crowd was marched to the National Palace, where Duvalier, acceding to its "solicitations," appeared on the balcony...