Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chamber ensemble that had been playing Lully's Les Mousquetaires du Roy fell silent. The president of the Constitutional Council, which oversees elections, stepped forward to proclaim Pompidou as President. Then the grand chancellor of the Legion of Honor slipped around Pompidou's neck the heavy chain of a grand master of the order, symbolic of the Presidency...
Gaelic folk legend is a long chain of deceptions and false appearances-gods turning into dwarfs, dwarfs turning into cats and, above all, beautiful women turning into death-dealing hags. The outcome of these tales was that the gods were usually razzed, the lowly were usually razzed too, and sex was made to look grotesque. Not so different from other people's legends perhaps, except in their very high quotient of mockery; but Ireland's history, or rather the lack of it, has decreed a strange long life to them. The gods turned eventually into English landlords...
...Shanghai, it is honeycombed with 91 military installations accommodating 45,000 U.S. troops, It is also, however, a growing threat to harmonious U.S.-Japanese relations. A quarter-century after the war, the continued rule of 1,000,000 citizens of Okinawa and the 140 other islands of the Ryukyu chain by a U.S. military commander is a constant source of irritation to both the islanders and the Japanese. Both want political control of the chain returned to Tokyo...
...years ago, Ellman decided to expand. For $250,000 he bought control of Longchamps, a New York restaurant chain. He incorporated the Cattleman into the chain, and began buying other restaurants, concentrating on decor. His catering empire now includes 115 restaurants in seven states, and will gross an estimated $75 million this year...
...have long had a chamber-of-horrors reputation, especially many of the older, smaller "mom and pop" homes run by unskilled husband-and-wife teams. Roy Christensen, 35, president of Beverly Enterprises, charges that they often are "just cesspools for the dying aged." By all outward signs, the newer chain homes are a vast improvement. Most are airy, well-lighted, landscaped structures that look like motels. Some have such amenities as barbershops and beauty parlors. Mindful that idleness can break the will to live, many organize activities for patients, including on-premises religious services, movies and tours...