Word: cherbourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO control. He was profoundly embarrassed when De Gaulle remarked that the Oder-Neisse line between East Germany and Poland should be Germany's permanent eastern frontier. Recently, German dignity was affronted when two French destroyers intercepted the West German freighter Bilbao and forced it to put into Cherbourg on the suspicion (unfounded, as it turned out) that it was carrying arms to the Algerian rebels...
...Charles Spencer, third* Duke of Marlborough, was the first to escape Sarah's whip hand, hailed his freedom with debts and extravagances totaling some half a million pounds. Charles died in 1758 in the Seven Years' War, a few months after his precipitous withdrawal by sea from Cherbourg had given France's Duc 'Ai-guillon the exquisite triumph of sending after him "a vessel under a flag of truce to restore the Duke of Marlborough's silver teaspoons which he had left behind in his hurry...
...yesterday, Cassill had not decided what to do shout Cherberg, and the unhappy coach would not comment. He had done his best--defeating a team which later beat Notre Dame, and routing the Cougars of Washington State, the Huskies arch-rivals. It will be another bad sleep for Coach Cherbourg tonight but that's football, West Coast style
...yesterday, Cassill had not decided what to do shout Cherberg, and the unhappy coach would not comment. He had done his best--defeating a team which later beat Notre Dame, and routing the Cougars of Washington State, the Huskies arch-rivals. It will be another bad sleep for Coach Cherbourg tonight but that's football, West Coast style
...Poverty. Meanwhile, partly because of its paltry teacher salary scale ($85 to $420 a month), the nation faces an eventual shortage of at least 20,000 teachers. The Rennes school system spent months trying to find 35 qualified instructors in mathematics and natural history. A typical secondary school in Cherbourg spent two years looking for a physics teacher, and in 1954 Paris was short 160 science teachers. But of all of France's educational headaches, poverty is, in a sense, the least. The major problem that the ministry was facing last week: the very nature of the school system...