Word: au
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During the war, Leni was cheerful and passively innocent, never bothering to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews. Now she has trouble fathoming why people are angry at her. Leni's lack of understanding is revealed to the reader at third hand by a character called Au., an abbreviation for Böll's imaginary "Author." He is a priggish, humorless drudge who is determined to assemble the life of his living subject through interviews with people who knew...
This automatic response to any White House request was also demonstrated by the State Department. In Au gust 1971 it cooperated with Hunt after receiving a memo from the White House and two calls from David Young, an Ehrlichman assistant on detached service from Henry Kissinger's Nation al Security Council staff. Young telephoned William B. Macomber Jr., then a Deputy Under Secretary of State. Macomber granted Hunt full access to the most secret "back -channel" communications (meaning only the addressee and sender should see them) between the State Department and its embassy in Saigon for a period...
...Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
When it was time to go, she turned and beamed at the class. "Bonjour, ca va, au 'voir." She spoiled the dramatic exit, though, when she poked her head back in the door and grinned and waved. "So long, Crabby," she said...
Bocuse is also the heir to two centuries of family tradition. His ancestors began cooking for paying guests in 1765, on the same site in the Lyonnais village of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or where his restaurant stands today. It is called simply "Paul Bocuse...