Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American children to live among foreign people without coming to know that people, its problems and greatness, is a national loss." Carpenter came to the coordinator's post nearly three years ago armed with a plan for eliminating that loss. Serving as a science and language teacher at Châteauroux airbase in France, he had seen how quickly children learned a language when they were exposed to it directly. Carpenter's first step was to organize the Sonnenberg-Wiesbaden exchange program for third-to sixth-graders. The pilot project, while slow going at first, soon got into...
...Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that it has never allowed a journalist or a press photographer into its plant. Luxembourg's huge Arbed firm, within whose châteaulike headquarters few outsiders have ever ventured, will hardly do more than admit that it makes steel...
Minutes after the man hung up and strode out, the Square de l'Archevêché started filling with French police. Just as the man said, a small delivery truck was parked in the alley, and inside it the gendarmes found a gagged, trussed, middle-aged man. Lifting the blindfold, a cop peered at the battered, bloody face and nodded: "It looks like Argoud...
...prison. For another, he is sickened by the brutality at the concentration camp where he is stationed. Steinbaum is on the verge of joining an anti-Nazi conspiracy when he makes the mistake of going to a party held by a high Nazi official in an elegant château. The symbol of Nazi Germany, Author von Abele suggests, is not an armed camp or an insane asylum but this grand, lurid party in which decent men lose their bearings and capitulate to monsters...
...position with you, so I use you a little, I play with you." Just so has she played with all the marshal's flunkies, as if she were the marshal's accomplice in debasing them. In the grey, foggy dawn, Steinbaum staggers out of the château "like a hooligan drunkenly stumbling homeward after a nocturnal orgy." The humanitarian has been...