Word: chauvel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Chauvel got money from the French government, set about reconstructing the cathedral in earnest. By last week, after six years of patient reconstruction work, citizens of Rouen could proudly announce that their cathedral was out of danger...
...save it, townsmen, under the leadership of Architect Albert Chauvel, felled pine trees from a nearby forest, dragged them to the cathedral to reinforce crumbling columns, collected bricks from wrecked houses to make emergency walls...
...droned on, the other ten delegates sat patiently around the horseshoe table. From the ceiling, television lights glared down on the high-domed head of Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, the pince-nez of the U.S.'s Warren Austin, the long nose of France's Jean Chauvel, the doodling hand of China's Tingfu F. Tsiang...
...Double Lock. This week began with the majority pressing its counteroffensive. France's Chauvel derided Malik's lies as a case of "pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...
Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb and France's Jean Chauvel introduced a joint Anglo-French resolution that welcomed "the prompt and vigorous support" which the world had given U.N.'s earlier Korea actions; they urged "a unified command under the United States," and asked the U.S. "to designate the commander of such forces...