Word: faute
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...when you're a Sophomore manager, the name tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous Sophomores who are roaming around. There is nothing come if faut for Place and Arnold. They direct all the lesser lights around, and care for such things as trips (most difficult item on any manager's agenda) and tickets. Dave, of course, didn't have to worry about publicity for the team--people seem to like to read about football...
...went to Paris. There everybody's morale was fine. Everybody said: "Il faut en finir"-"This time we must put an end to it." "So many Frenchmen said: 'Anyone can see that if Hitler doesn't attack now, at the peak of his strength, he's doomed.' And when you asked: 'Then why doesn't he attack now?' they replied, with vast Gallic shrugs, 'Undoubtedly because he knows he's doomed anyway.' So, the stalemate on the western front was widely explained as 'Hitler's realization...
...Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there. It was the Allies' first slogan: "Il faut en finir"-it must be ended...
Abruptly he awoke. His hand was stiff and numbed; he shook it. He pulled up the clothes so they were straight and faut...
...today, these famished Englishmen demanded something a little extra with each meal. Such things as white peacocks served with their feathers still remaining "to make them look alive" or rabbits adorned with corral beads upon their feet and silver bells hung from their necks were really considered "comme il faut" by the Emily Posts of that...