Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bumbling, hard-boiled Andre Marty of Spanish Civil War notoriety as the front man. The government, which had already jailed scores of Stalinists amid general applause, went on a hunt for big game. Pinay's men said that they raided Communist centers in Brest, Lorient and Bordeaux, and announced that they had broken an espionage case at Toulon...
...Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...
...Bordeaux and London...
...Major "Chuck" Yeager took turns flying the Mystere over Marignane, France, checking its airspeed system by flying it alongside F-86 Sabres. "An excellent interceptor," they concluded, and recommended that the French put it into production. The Mystère will begin coming off assembly lines next month at Bordeaux's Dassault Aircraft plant. Target: a plane a day by the end of the year...
Before each meeting, the two advisers, Seymour O. Simches, instructor in Romance Languages, and Robert F. Metzdorf, Cataloguer in Houghton Library, choose the particular type of wine to be tasted; Rhone, Bordeaux, Burgundy, or Rhine wine, and order it from either Boston or New York importers...