Word: baron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chateau itself, looming against the skies of Languedoc, looks like the scene of a Gothic melodrama. Turkeys roost on the veranda, and assorted dogs and cats prowl the courtyard where lilacs bloom. In an unburied coffin lies the late Baron Léonce de Portal, whose family title dates back seven centuries. The new baron, Jean-Louis de Portal, has been holding off the police at rifle point for more than six weeks...
...baron was born here during la Belle Epoque, and grew up on this 314-acre estate in Saint-Nauphary, in southwestern France. The flourishing vineyards produced excellent wines, named for the estate, La Fumade. The baron married, had a son, and lived a life of rural gentility, trying none too skillfully to manage his estate, getting through the lean years with loans added to the mortgage. By the end of World War II, the baron's fortunes were as dilapidated as his estate; his wife and son were dead, the vineyards diseased. Then...
...wife also took charge of the chaotic household finances and began checking on the baron's various bills, some of which he had accepted without verifying. She suspected that neighboring tradesmen had been cheating the unwary baron. Her accusations met with indignation among the townspeople, who had mistrusted her from the first-a foreigner, a Catholic in a largely Protestant area, and, worst of all, a former domestic servant. The baroness responded by taking a number of disputed bills to court...
Veteran Gaullist Olivier Guichard, 52, a baron and longtime Pompidou protége, could be in line for Messmer's job. Schumann's spot at the Quay d'Orsay could go to his smooth-mannered deputy, André Bettencourt, 53, who was named Acting Foreign Minister last week when Schumann resigned...
Watson met with Baron Pittinger, the associate director of Athletics, yesterday afternoon to discuss Hart's and Hardy's status...