Word: egloff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coty's dinner at the Elysée Palace, Ike appeared resplendent in midnight-blue tails, the red breast ribbon of the Legion of Honor and France's highest decoration for soldiers, the Médaille Militaire. Sitting next to Coty's English-speaking daughter Genevieve Egloff, the only woman among 167 men, Ike heard himself toasted as "a chief forever glorious," chatted with animation until nearly eleven o'clock. Shortly after noon the next day he showed up again at the palace for luncheon. This time, as he began to doff his coat...