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Word: etrangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...Mexicans in 1863. In the courtyard surrounded by the pink-walled barracks stood the Monument to the Dead-a bronze terrestrial globe guarded by four bigger-than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran to embark for France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Exit Beau Geste | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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