Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John L. Phelan, history, University of Bordeaux and University of Paris, France...
...tribute to Richard Coeur de Lion, who exempted their products from customs duties eight centuries ago, 44 Bordeaux winegrowers journeyed to London's Parliament Square, where they sprinkled some rich Bordeaux earth around the king's statue with the words, "In your blood were all the riches of our land; in your terrifying vitality there flashed the love of life that comes ... from our vine-covered hillsides...
Albert Guay, 33, died on the gallows at Bordeaux jail in Montreal last week. During his last hours, the wavy-haired little jeweler wrapped himself in the same callous arrogance with which he had plotted the time-bomb murder of his wifeand 22 othersaboard a Quebec Airways plane 16 months ago. He methodically worked crossword puzzles in his death cell, looked up once to say to his guards: "At least I die famous...
...still lifes, street scenes and dozens of bullfight pictures. With six action pictures illustrating the Spanish ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf, old, awkward, feeble [but] so happy and eager to see the world...
...coast, Italian tactics seemed to be paying off. Bartali was close to the leaders, and the Italian team had won five of the first nine laps. The French team had won only one lap, and French partisans began to get restless. When Italian Alfredo Pasetti won the ninth lap, Bordeaux fans greeted him with shouts of "Macaroni" and "Dirty Fascists...