Word: cinq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...
...last they set sail for home. On the way, Cinqé quarreled with the missionaries, the other Africans grew restive. At Sierra Leone, when they saw many of their countrymen, they flung off their clothes to show their tribal tattoos. The missionaries were aghast. Worse yet, some of the Africans deserted the mission, hit out for home. Cinqué went with them...
...Cinq Ans Après Ah, yes, I wrote "The Purple...
...People of France). Last week at a fervent national council of his party in Paris, complete with the Cross of Lorraine, the V-for-victory sign of World War II, and chants of "De Gaulle to power!", the general proclaimed: "Once again, we shall be called in at moins cinq''-(meaning "five minutes of," the French equivalent of "the eleventh hour"). The Gaullists still believed themselves to be the wave of the future. Some of their former cronies among the Popular Republicans, like ex-Premier Georges Bidault, were in favor of an alliance with the RPF. Only then...