Word: dessus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dessus la Téte." In France, the picture was even clearer. A little man had got good & sore at the Communists. When Paul Ramadier took office (before anyone had heard of the Truman Doctrine), he was generally considered an inoffensive type with some administrative ability. But the Communists pushed him around too much. During the last Government crisis (TIME, May 12), he suddenly declared: "J'en ai par-dessus la téte (I'm fed to the gills)," and fired the Communist Ministers. It was the Truman Doctrine that gave him the means to stay...
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