Word: crise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pistolets (rolls), Belgians found no hint in their morning papers that anything special was in the air. But by evening of the next day, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak had resigned. Belgians were so bewildered that they called their first political crisis in over a year la drole de crise, as they had once spoken of la drole de guerre (the phony...
...week's end, la dróle de crise was still unsettled. Belgians expected, however, that it would be settled Spaak's way, and that Spaak himself would be back in the government, stronger than ever...
Author George Stewart writes like an associate professor of English at the University of California, which he is. His human beings, scarcely human, sport such names as "Big Al" and "Dirty Ed" (author's quotes) and speak such atrocities as "Crise-tamitey." Blizzards "hold sway"; men "sally forth." Even his fascinating meteorological material is doctored with the characteristic cheapening devices of a lecturer who is accustomed to talking down. That the book can succeed at all against such malpractice is a tribute 1) to neatness and effort, 2) to the plain grandeur of the subject. Its literary honors will...
...Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...