Word: etain
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...Instead, Etain O'Malley has created a woman who just wants a man and knows how to get him. Motherhood is not very much in the picture. Philip Kerr's John Tanner protests far too much to be believed. He is going to marry Ann: he knows it, she knows it, we know it, and what's more, he wants to do it. This still makes for a good story, and Kerr is quite amusing as he attempts to avoid his inevitable fate, but it is not quite the whole story proposed by Shaw's lines...
...fighter-bombers from France to Britain and West Germany. Reason: the French government would not let the U.S. ship the fighter-bombers' nuclear weapons into France unless the "nucs" were put under French control. A few days later, the F-100s began roaring off their bases at Toul, Etain and Chaumont, landed in new quarters at British and German alternate bases hard by the nuclear weapons, a combination that made NATO strength for the Berlin crisis that much solider...
World War I, the 20th Century's parent catastrophe, echoed faintly when Friedrich Wilhelm, the Hohenzollern crown prince of old Germany, and Henri Philippe Péetain, Marshal of France, died within four days. They had faced each other across the mass slaughter at Verdun; each, after his own fashion, had tried to make his deal with the mass brutality of Naziism that came after, and each died disgraced...
...record of the summer's work of the Association was such as to elicit the warmest praise from the French architects and government officials under whom they worked. In the Department of the Meuse the students completed the surveys of four villages, Etain, Belleville, Vacherauville, and Clermonten-Argonne, and of one in the Aisne, as well as partly surveying the city of Verdun. The New York Herald, Paris edition, quotes the head engineer of Verdun as saying, "No surveyors ever in my employ have done such accurate or such rapid work as the American students...