Word: chaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from France to Britain and West Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
...tents, tramping across muddy fields to exhume crates of spare parts stacked in the open for lack of hangar space. Ground controllers still radio instructions to hovering planes from the backs of olivedrab trucks, parked near the runways. At the 48th Fighter Bomber's bleak, bare base at Chaumont, the Chief of Staff...
Sickly little Gilbert Godard, a grocer's assistant, did not impress his neighbors in Chaumont (near Dijon) as the kind of man who might make a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes. Twice married, once divorced, he had never been seen at Mass. Nonetheless, it looked to a lot of pious folk in Chaumont last week as if Gilbert Godard, pilgrim to Lourdes, had been granted a miracle...
...pounds. His legs and one hand seemed so paralyzed that he could scarcely move. He was a pitiful sight as he hobbled along, supported by his faithful wife and a stout cane. Surprised as he was at the request, the gentle Abbé Louis Desprez, pastor of Chaumont, readily agreed to let Gilbert join the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes in search of a cure...
Prudence & Plexiglass. Five days later, his Plexiglas support left behind at Lourdes, Gilbert Godard was back in Chaumont, the talk of the town. Why, asked a few skeptical citizens, should such grace have fallen on him when better folk had been bypassed? "The bounty of God," said Abbé Desprez, "can fall on anyone, good or not so good. God loves us all." Some accepted the explanation. But others whispered to neighbors' dark suggestions that here was no miracle. The clergy at Lourdes were noncommittal. "The Church," said Abbé Jeanson, "reserves absolutely its judgment on M. Godard...