Word: citroen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak, U.S. vacationists are on the move -about their own country and on record invasions of foreign shores. The travelers, according to reports from all our sources, are devoting themselves mostly to just plain fun, like the newlyweds motoring down the Loire Valley in a rented new bug-model Citroen, the bald Philadelphian sipping vermouth and eying the Italian beauties strolling along Rome's Via Veneto, or the middle-aged sportsmen playing at being matadors in Madrid's new bullfighting cafe...
...After three hours and 15 minutes of sporadic fire, the Binh Xuyen were just about ready to quit. "Warmest compliments . . . The Fatherland is proud of you," Diem signaled his young soldiers-but into the midst of free South Viet Nam's first small victory wheeled a black French Citroen, a French general inside it. "Cease fire! Assume defensive positions!"the Frenchman ordered the astonished Vietnamese...
...opium. There was still no direct proof that Métra had provided the opium, but the police kept watching and waiting. The watching was doubly difficult since Métra knew all the cop tricks, and it would not do to trail him in the familiar black Citroen...
Soon, merchants from other towns were writing and telephoning for advice. Even priests enthusiastically offered to ring church bells to warn of the approach of revenue officers. Poujade forgot his bookselling business, and began rushing around France in his Citroen, organizing and making speeches. "We are the mules of the nation," he shouted amid the delighted roars of some 3,000 followers in Tours last week. "They are not simply killing...
...Miglia took its annual toll. A French Citroen spun out, smacked into a tree, bounced into a crowd and injured eight people. The driver, Andre Bouchon, was killed and his copilot injured severely. In another accident, a 15-year-old boy was killed when a French Renault went off the road. In all, five were killed, 25 injured, including twelve drivers...