Word: corsican
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...arrogant with success. They called an organization meeting to merge war veterans, Poujadists and students into a Committee for Public Safety. Veteran leaders who had consulted Mollet were shouted down. "Why talk to Mollet?" the crowd yelled. Up sprang a little man with bulging eyes. Jean Baptiste Biaggi, a Corsican lawyer from Paris, had flown in, a week earlier, with the avowed purpose of whipping up a new French Revolution. "Victory is yours now! Don't drop it!" bellowed Biaggi. "Mollet's surrender was unconditional. Throw out his policy just as you did Catroux...
Married. Gregory Peck, 40, lanky, Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday); and Veronique Passani, 22, half-Russian, half-Corsican Parisian newshen; 19 hours after his twelve-year-old marriage (three children) finally ended in divorce; in Lompoc, Calif...
...four roaches are men, four derelicts on the rot in a Central American oil town. Mario (Yves Montand), a young Corsican with meaty good looks and the gross itch they often portend, ekes out his boredom by cadging bliss at a local refreshment booth (Vera Clouzot). Jo (Charles Vanel), a career thug who fears nothing he can get his hairy hands on and thinks he can get them on everything, hops spiderishly from plot to pointless plot. Luigi (Folco Lulli) is a big warm country boy from Italy, so stupid (as Mario sees him) that he works for a living...
...businessmen: it banished him "for eternity"). He conducted his business for a while from an elaborate suite of offices on Wall Street, with sliding walls and unnumbered beautiful secretaries. He also believed in numerology and developed an undisguised admiration for Napoleon; he loved to dress up as the Corsican at masquerades, kept a one-foot statuette of Napoleon on his desk...
...fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle as a lawyer in 1905, enlisted as a private in World War I and won a Croix de guerre, was first elected to the Parliament's lower house in 1923. Later, as a Senator, he had time for a comfortable law practice...