Word: bordelaise
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But the real stars of the show will be the athletes living at the Olympic Village. Accommodations at the high-rise development on the Inn River will be spartan, but 60 cooks in the mess hall will see that none of the competitors go hungry. Each athlete is apportioned 6...
Because France has won the last four races, one of her sons is confidently expected to repeat this year. Chief French hopes are Georges Speicher, last year's winner who has enough spare breath during the race for a steady stream of quips and japes; Roger Lapébie...
Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry...
Dunois, Capron, Bordelais, Renaud-all with shrivelled hams, bald or bleached heads, varicose veins, and wrinkled phizzes-ran three kilometres in Paris in a race for men over 70 years old. Dunois, smallest and youngest, won. Said he: "I am old, it is true, but I am tough."
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