Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summitry as leaders of the seven mightiest non-Communist industrial powers meet in Canada for the latest in a series of annual conferences devoted to economic affairs. It promises to be a quiet and, at least on the surface, harmonious session, in keeping with its rustic setting. Le Chateau Montebello, 40 miles east of Ottawa, is the world's largest building made of logs. (One member of the U.S. advance team ungenerously called it "a dump...
...usual aloof attitude toward reporters, François Mitterrand seemed to want company during these final hours of his long vigil. Yet he is a failure when it comes to small talk and so he had avidly seized on a remark about how it always rains here in Chateau-Chinon. Forthwith, he proceeded to launch into a lecture on local meteorology...
Reality came crashing down on Giscard at 6:30 p.m. on election Sunday with the insistent ringing of a telephone at the family's chateau de Varvasse in the village of Chanonat (pop. 850). Campaign Manager Jean-François Deniau had some bad tidings: early computer projections showed Giscard a loser by 4%. (The final official tally: 15,714,598, or 51.76%, for Mitterrand; 14,647,787, or 48.24%, for Giscard.) By 8:20 p.m., shortly after the results were made public, the Elysçe released a terse statement in which Giscard expressed his "wishes"-nothing warmer...
...addition to roasted sunflower seeds, ingredients include hydrogenated rape seed, which is commonly fed to birds and is said not to stick to beaks. As for the flavor, both cottonseed and sunflower spreads compare to the real thing like, say, California sauternes to Chateau d'Yquem...
...barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry an urgent message. Treptow, 24, volunteered. He was killed before he could complete his mission. Says Treptow's nephew, Lyle Gehring of Roseville, Calif.: "The diary was found in his uniform pocket. It was quite bloody at the time...