Word: chers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...
...accusation (punishable by excommunication if proved) of entering into "pacts, promises or other obligations." When a newsman asked Cardinal Tisserant in the hall of the Consistory if he thought the future Pope might be in the room (which contained almost all the cardinals then in Rome), he replied: "Mon cher, this room is very large and I don't see very well...
...Volkswagen, 50% of the nation's iron ore. 90% of its lignite). He sweetened the pill by asking if Schäffer would also like to be Vice Chancellor. Protestants within Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party promptly squawked that to replace Protestant Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher with Roman Catholic Schaffer would wreck the Cabinet balance between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Schäffer agreed to accept only if he was also given control of the federal debt...
...Friends & Enemies. But smaller manufacturers, though publicly outraged, kept right on selling to Gattegno for the compelling reason that he pays cash, buys ten times more than his competitors (although they usually ask him to keep their transactions secret). And through Gattegno's own throwaway newspaper, Moins Cher (cheaper), Parisians heard and spread the word to 12,000 new customers last year alone, while the French government hinted that credit is surely possible for a man who understands so well how to cut the cost of living...
Pigeons have been carrying messages ever since a water-locked Noah sent a dove out to bring tidings of land. Caesar, campaigning in Gaul, used pigeons to carry news of his exploits to Rome. In World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost Battalion, braved gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions...