Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished him to a dusty office as inspector of police schools...
...months later, reported Bromberger, thinking to impress his chief with the thoroughness of his operation, Wybot marched into the office of the Minister of the Interior with the tapes of the May conversation. The next day he was ousted from his job. De Gaulle's son-in-law declared that Wybot had been "bugging" all of De Gaulle's private conversations for the past 13 years. But what really enraged De Gaulle himself was the fact that Wybot's duties involved only foreign espionage and not internal security; did Wybot therefore consider De Gaulle's patriotism...
...Union followed soon after. By last week, things had gone so far that a U.S. State Department official grimly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Guinea had become Communism's No. 1 target in Africa. Touré has channeled at least a third of his total trade (chief exports: bananas, peanuts and coffee) to Eastern Europe...
Baarle's chief occupation, naturally, is smuggling. Even legitimate businessmen can prosper by setting up their establishments on both sides of the border and operating in whichever country happens to offer the more favorable price levels and the lower taxes. "From the cradle to the grave," says Dutch Burgomaster Franciscus de Grauw of Baarle-Nassau, "our actions violate the law." "But," adds his Belgian colleague, Burgomaster Jan Loots of Baarle-Hertog, "we feel 100% delighted with the situation...
...bronze statue identified as Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...