Word: chateauful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chateau de la Muette, onetime Parisian home of the Rothschilds and now, appropriately enough, the counting-house of Europe, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler gave his Continental colleagues the best financial news this year. Britain, he said, will relax trade restrictions to allow another $90 million worth of imports from Western Europe. British tourists will henceforth be allowed to take abroad ?40 ($112) apiece instead of the ?25 ($70) permitted before. "The United Kingdom," Butler told his fellow members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, "is determined to play the part...
...with a police-room discussions of former passions but weakens fifteen minutes of the film. Fortunately, after this the action picks up markedly. And except for an overlong comfroom scene, the film is again highly exciting, reaching a splendid crescendo with a chase through the halls of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac...
Mamie Eisenhower, who has kept house in everything from a two-room flat to a French chateau, was undaunted by her new job. After the first few hectic days, the White House was running with the quiet precision of a watchmaker's convention at a Swiss inn. Mamie, already busy with the endless receiving line, had the situation well in hand. Most Washington observers were agreed that if anyone could make the White House a home, Mamie could, and Mamie would...
...last days of his government, Pinay tried to arrange a secret meeting with West Germany's Konrad Adenauer at an old chateau outside Paris. Purpose of the meeting: to discuss renegotiation of the European Defense Community treaty. Adenauer was assured that Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would not be present. Facing a political crisis over Schuman's demand for unequivocal ratification and parliament's demand for amendments, Pinay hoped to escape his troubles by working out a deal with Germany...
...sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest is killed at Chateau-Thierry. Even the crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds Ben a wizened-up derelict dying...