Word: cambrai
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Vision & Hope. Moore followed his father's wish and became a teacher, but World War I liberated him. He joined the 15th London Regiment, put in a long stretch of monotony in France that culminated in a surrealistic burst of four days' combat at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. He was gassed and invalided. Instead of returning to teaching at war's end. he took an ex-soldier's educational grant and enrolled in the School of Art at Leeds...
...dismissal notices to 527 employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
...World War I, as the Allied-German lines swayed and writhed across France, the same towns came again & again into the news as they changed hands-Arras, Amiens, Cambrai, Soissons. Korea was producing another crop of such towns, won and lost in a matter of weeks or days instead of years. Pohang, Angang, Yong-chon, Hyonpung and Changnyong had changed hands at least three times. And such towns as Taegu, the northwestern "turntable," and Masan, the south coast anchor, were in the news day after day, because they were under almost constant threat...
...prisoner in the Tower of London, publicly confessing that he is a mere impostor and not the Duke of York at all. Shrewd Henry VII suspects a deeper, secret truth: that Pierre is really a bastard son of the Duchess of Burgundy and the Bishop of Cambrai. Thus, as the proud, yellow-haired pretender is led to the gallows and his bride languishes an unwilling attendant at Henry's court, it may be that Pierre has the Plantagenet blood in him after all. But everybody is too exhausted to care much...
...Lexicographer Partridge "no word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...