Word: dijon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, in a strange country. In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high on her toes, poised for dancing. "Play that last measure softly...
Fatheree takes mustard as a case in point. The Cabot dining hall, he says serves only the fancy brown, dijon-style mustard...
Take me out to the ball game, Take me out to the Diamond View Suites. Buy me some Dijon-marinated jumbo shrimp and Grgich Hills Chardonnay, I don't care 'cause the company will...
...money markets has reinforced doubts about the E.C.'s ability to achieve a single currency and greater political union. In a climate of growing unemployment, a spate of factory closings is leading to bitter rivalry: France is seeking to stop Hoover Europe from moving 600 manufacturing jobs from Dijon to Glasgow. Glasgow is protesting Nestle's subsidiary Rowntree's plans to shut a chocolate factory, transferring operations outside Scotland. "European unity might be good for business," says customs clerk Retegui, reflecting widespread popular unease. "But what does it do for the man in the street...