Word: deux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After dinner one night last week, Charles de Gaulle donned a blue dressing gown and retired to the study of his stone farmhouse at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, leaving orders that he was not to be disturbed. Perhaps with some foreboding (if he believed all the experts), De Gaulle turned on his TV set and concentrated on an election that might keep him in Colombey the rest of his days. When it became clear that the voting for a new National Assembly had turned into a landslide for Gaullist candidates, France's President could not resist making a jubilant...
...even with the late actor James Dean, hero of the beatniks. Unfortunately for the Royal Ballet, Nureyev is like Dean in another respect: he is as complex and difficult an animal offstage as he is on. After giving a superb performance opposite Fonteyn in an electrifying pas de deux from Le Corsaire, Nureyev withdrew from all his scheduled performances...
...abruptly to the bells of the church. We follow the bell rope until, at its end we discover, to our spiritual delight, the dangling body of Mme de Gaulle, her face almost hidden, but unmistakable, under a carpet of ants. With a holy grace Quouquou dissolves to Colombey-les-Deux Eglises where, ironically enough M. de Gaulle is praying for his wife's soul while his servants sneak up behind him with an enormous pointed truncheon...
Echoed View. De Gaulle took an extra day at his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises to study the returns. "It's fine here," he told an aide. "If we have to stay at Colombey, the life will be very pleasant." Next day, De Gaulle flew to Paris to tell his Cabinet that France's mandate was strong enough for him to accept. Obviously echoing De Gaulle's view, Premier Georges Pompidou explained that to get the true results, one must subtract from the no votes "the 27% or 28%" that represent the Communists...
...reaction might set in among voters challenged once too often to vote yes, or else. But pre-referendum polls show De Gaulle with a comfortable 67% majority, and opposition speakers find it necessary to protest that they are not for driving De Gaulle back home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises but merely back to parliamentary government...