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Word: diamant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Should De Gaulle ever succeed in wedding his obese atomic bomb to his frail Diamant rocket (current orbital payload: 175 Ibs.), France will have obtained a nuclear-missile capability of sorts in the Western Hemisphere-a feat even Khrushchev presumably failed to achieve. France has magnanimously made clear that it plans to permit other nations to use its Guiana pad, including, by all means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Guiana: From Devil's Island To Cape de Gaulle | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Montreal-born Maureen Forrester, the performance was one more demonstration that she now stands in the front rank of contraltos-although it is only nine years since she walked fresh from a church choir to the studio of her teacher, Dutch Lieder Singer Bernard Diamant, who told her, "You don't know how to sing." Having worked hard with Diamant, she gol her big break in 1957 when Walter hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Song to Remember | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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