Word: canards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brusquely vetoed British membership in the Common Market two years ago, the master of the Elysée Palace and the occupant of No. 10 Downing Street sat down last weekend in Paris for two days of official talks. Things went surprisingly well, though a mismatch of menus laid canard Rouen on Guest Harold Wilson's plate for both lunch and dinner one day, first at the Elysée and then at the Quai d'Orsay. Unruffled, Wilson declared the conversations "outspoken, robust and constructive," and a smiling De Gaulle let it be known on his part...
...then it was dubbed Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent, not only because of its long, subtly curving fuselage and odd little canard wing, but because of its unenviable test record. On its first test last October, a brake locked on landing, sending up a spectacular shower of sparks and flame. Six subsequent tests were not much more impressive...
...many cars competing with each other on an inadequate road system. Parking is so nightmarish that it has become a Parisian cliché to say "Shall we walk, or do we have time to take the car?" As fisticuffs and frustrations pile up, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné observed: "What's needed is not a driver's license but a hunting license." The official police publication Liaisons, groping for the psychological roots of the problem, observed that in motorists there is a "connection between a certain complex of pride and power," and that...
...long, subtly curving fuselage, the strange little canard wing tacked on near the nose, the great, boxlike maw of the engine air intakes have all combined to earn North American's XB-70A the mildly derisive nickname, "Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent." But as it taxied out onto the runway at Palmdale, Calif., last week, Cecil seemed to come alive with new dignity. That single plane designed to cruise at three times the speed of sound may be all that is left of the Air Force dream of big supersonic manned bombers, but all by itself...
...tariff walls between the Common Market and the U.S. Since mid-October, the U.S., Britain, West Germany and Italy have changed their leaders, a point that Charles de Gaulle, now the senior Western statesman in point of tenure, has not overlooked. A cartoon in the satirical French Weekly Le Canard Enchainé shows Pupils Erhard and Douglas-Home seated before Schoolmaster De Gaulle as Johnson, in short pants, enters the classroom. "Sit down, Johnson," says De Gaulle. "I am going to repeat for you the lesson I have been giving to your little comrades...