Word: favril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bert ("Dopey"), he had always been something of a joke. When he tried pole vaulting, the bamboo splintered. When he tried to throw the hammer, it fell on his toe. Next he tried marathon running, only to twist an ankle. "Poor Bébert," laughed the villagers of Favril, his boyhood home. They did not know that secretly Roger was reading up on sports, determined to become a champion. "Father," he said one day in 1946, "I'm leaving for Versailles. There's a big rifle-shooting contest on there, and I'm entering...
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