Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, willowy wife of Britain's Ambassador to France and once "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," was right in there with Greta Garbo, who got left $20,000 by a hermit last month. Lady Diana was left a fortune by a lovelorn Spanish grandee who had set eyes on her only twice. Big-nosed, big-mustached Count Manuel Antonio de Luzarraga saw her at a London ball more than 20 years ago; 15 years later he saw her again on the street. He had brightened the years between by writing her anonymous love letters. Scotland...
CIDER FROM EDEN (331 pp.)-Nancy Bruff-Duff...
...nation's welfare, Governor Duff told them, depends on "an entirely different understanding between labor & management than what has obtained in the immediate past. . . . That means mutual give & take, forbearance and cooperation. . . ." Unaccustomed to such talk, PMAsters uneasily shifted their cigars as Duff warned that they would have to face "such sacrifices of our interests, pecuniary or otherwise, as are definitely necessary . . . for the public interest...
...Duff had served notice that PMA's Grundyites would have to take him on his own terms, or leave...