Word: deuxi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon became disturbed by the obstacles that traditional business secrecy placed in the path of expanding business activity. He decided to shatter the secrecy with an organization that would function partly like a Wall Street brokerage house and, by necessity, partly like the French government's intelligence-hunting Deuxième Bureau. With a loan from Zurich's Swiss Credit Bank, he opened offices in his apartment: his staff used a bedroom and dining room, his secretary typed in the bathroom, and the mimeograph machine whirred in the kitchen. Eurofinance made a profit the second year, moved...
Baptiste the Goat. The Canadians swiftly got to work behind man-high barricades of barbed wire. Machine guns were mounted on Ferret armored cars, and the "Van Doos" (a corruption of Royal Vingt-Deuxième Régiment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...
...design for the Fifth Republic in Paris. Perhaps with his mentor in mind, Senghor conceded in one of his poems that "absolute power requires the blood of the most dear being." In any case, by week's end he had grandly christened Senegal's new regime, "La Deuxième République...