Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spunky Little Man. Once a rather dowdy (though brilliant) history professor, Georges Bidault suddenly blossomed out after liberation as a dapper diplomat and statesman. Britain's Ernest Bevin had once patronizingly called him "this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle...
Bidault, whose party has been losing ground to De Gaulle's followers, does not want an election. So the spunky little man will do his best to keep France's latest jerry-built cabinet from crashing down.
The Daily Mail dusted off a costume quote: "The country should say to [the government] as Cromwell said to the Long Parliament: 'You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, Go!'" The Times: "Mr. Attlee has to ask...
Moments of Glee. Opening debate in the House of Commons, Sir Stafford Cripps made yet another of his austerity speeches. "We can draw no more," he said gloomily, "from our already attenuated reserves." Dollar imports of food and tobacco would be cut still further-in fact, Sir Stafford made it...
There was only one hitch. Peter had been born blind in one eye. This handicap had kept him from going to a university after Eton. It had meant he had to have a special hunting gun designed for sighting with the left eye. And it had kept him from following...