Word: beaucoup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sido; her marriage at 20 to Henri Gauthiers-Villars (known as Willy), a shrewd, cosmopolitan literary journalist who divined her talent and sat her down to write the books that made him famous - Willy published them under his own name. Not that their secret went entirely undiscovered; "Willy ont beaucoup de talent, "remarked one critic - Willy are very talented. Colette was 33 before she left her oppressor and began to publish...
Just ahead, a couple of Honda drivers were stopped, an ARVN unit was wearily piling out of its A.P.C.s and the road was devoid of traffic. "Beaucoup V.C., beaucoup V.C.," said one ARVN soldier, pointing down the road. Just then ARVN artillery behind us opened up. The 155-mm. howitzer shells descended over our heads with the sound of ripping cloth, landing just off the road at the edge of a tree line. Then from the distance we saw a single Jeep hurrying toward us, veering crazily from side to side. It screeched to a stop, and the driver...
THERE were beaucoup VC," said Sergeant Lam Son, a twelve-year veteran of the ARVN 9th Regiment, who earlier had been fortunate enough to escape from Loc Ninh, the town that was overrun by the North Vietnamese in their drive on An Loc. "They [the North Vietnamese] had about 30 tanks and many of us were killed. We kill many VC, but they too strong." When I met the sergeant, he was preparing to move north again toward the besieged city of An Loc. His unit was in the village of Lai Khe, 30 miles south of An Loc, which...
...Beaucoup hot," said one trooper, looking at the heat waves rising from the asphalt highway, which was pitted and cracked from the mortar shelling...
...Beaucoup VC," we replied...