Word: caed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Auld Hornie, nae sooner is the lad in Oban than he spies a paughty lass wi' a weel-rounded doup. Och. but when he attempts to hae a crack wi' her, she snashes him back an' ca's him nae mair than a bluntie blellum. The neist lass he meets is a scroggie auld scaul' that snowks him out for a slidd'ry jaukiner from Ireland bent on houghmagandie (or waur), an' she gaes scraichin' to the bobbie...
...Croix des Vaches. In his other life, prowling about the dark streets of Montmartre, he thought of himself as "Bill," a regular caïd (tough guy), who knew his way around the milieu, the circle of hardened characters who run Pigalle. One night at his favorite bar, the Sans-Souci, Bill happened to meet a pretty young prostitute named Dominique. Born in a village near Reims, Dominique had been taken to Paris at 18 by a pimp from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers...
...penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could not pay the 500,000-franc "fine" she owed him, he offered to help her pull off a stickup in suburban Fontainebleau to raise the money...
...quite naturally, her protector. At first, Bill and his mistress stuck by their story-anyone, said Bill, might have an empty oil can in his car or a bunch of 7.65 shells hidden in his bathroom. But in the end, the evidence was too much. Still the compleat caïd, who would show neither pity nor remorse, Bill made a detailed confession, blandly explained: "I knew she could never pay the fine, so she had to die." Later, as he posed triumphantly for newsmen, swaggering Georges Rapin turned to his captors and said, "No hard feelings," and then congratulated...
...army officers for the most part execute De Gaulle's fraternization policies faithfully. Many now direct their hatred at those who in the days of "Papa's Algeria" created the conditions that provoked the rebellion: the big absentee landlords; the inefficient officials who allowed the predatory caïds to rule as they pleased; the illiterate smalltime clerks, policemen and tradesmen who lorded it over the Moslems, despising, humiliating and at the same time fearing them...