Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed to provide transport to Corsica for 125 of France's "most reliable" cops, the black-helmeted troopers of the Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité. And when the C.R.S. men finally did reach the island (aboard a chartered Air France...
...jacket blurbs, how "bold, frank, fearless, honest, realistic, and profound" can you get? Just about every possibility you can think of in sex has been boldly, frankly, and interminably, explored. Many writers are deluded into thinking that a four-letter word vocabulary, carefully detailed scenes of undressing, and clinically direct anatomical descriptions add up to a profound study of the relations between men and women...
...hated dictators. Thrown in his face again and again were such questions as, "Why did Eisenhower give Perez Jimenez the Legion of Merit? Why was that ruthless dictator admitted to the U.S. with such ease after he fell?" Nixon concluded that his unhappy reception in Caracas was a direct result of "ten years of dictatorship" associated in the public mind with...
...Moving Van"), and settle down for a concert tour. Next day Van was back at Idlewild airport to embrace a new buddy, Soviet Conductor Kiril Kondrashin, who will direct orchestras for Van in New York, Philadelphia and Washington...
...experience has told us that we had overdesigned some of the features we were offering -I refer particularly to the complexity of some of today's modern home appliances -and our review has brought us back a little to products that are simpler to operate, a little more direct in their appeal to the customer...