Word: conseil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around for an out. In quick succession the tower was turned down by the state railroads, post office and TV station. When private capital also refused to bite last week, the only remaining buyer in sight seemed to be the department of the Somme. But the Somme's Conseil Général has already put itself on record as waiting "until the government offers us the tower for a symbolic payment of one franc...
There were some in the West who took this to mean that Russia would be more reasonable about German reunification. Molotov did not wait long to disabuse them. Back in Geneva, face to face with the Western Big Three around the green-topped table in the Salle du Conseil, Molotov revealed with relish that the "better baggage" he brought from Moscow was a fresh blast of cold...
Under the great gold-and-brown murals of Geneva's Salle du Conseil, where the Heads of State met three months before, the Big Four foreign ministers met and talked in the polite tones suitable to the spirit of Geneva. Their voices echoed coldly in empty galleries. Outside the hall, delegations from both Germanys circled restlessly...
...Conseil d'État will unhesitatingly interpret a law newly passed by the National Assembly in the light of decrees or regulations issued by Francis I or Louis XIII, and use the final and authoritative construction thus put upon it to pour back the new wine into the old bottles of an archaic jurisprudence. Before the last war the Cour des Comptes still used the same antiquated accounting system, the same quill pens, and the same bewildering piles of ledgers that were used in the Chambre des Comptes of the last Capetians [circa 1300]." The typewriter and the calculating...
...neighbors at The Hague pricked up their ears in interest when Theodorus told them-in strictest confidence-of the great position he held. He was, it seems, no mere tailor's son at all, but "President Robert," the supreme head of a worldwide underground organization called the Conseil Consulaire Secret Diplomatique, a group so powerful that it could stop or start world wars at will...