Word: fete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same as always. Part county fair, part political convention, the annual get-together is a celebration of gastronomy, games and proletarian sloganeering that for two days turns the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve into a Communist carnival. Yet for all the gourmandizing hoopla, this year's fete was hardly the joyful event of the past few Septembers, when the party was confidently anticipating a leftist victory in last March's parliamentary elections. In the wake of the left's stunning defeat and as the feud between Communists and Socialists enters its second year, the festivities...
...Communist Party"; there are only loyal "comrades who discuss." Contradicting his earlier condemnation of the critics, Marchais contended that "it is possible to have good politics in our party only to the extent that each person can press his own ideas freely." Noting that Archcritic Elleinstein was at the fete, busily autographing books, Marchais called his presence "obvious proof of the democracy that reigns within the breast of the party...
...precisely timed to the clicks of his motorized camera. She alienated some of her Gloucestershire neighbors by sacking a milkman who refused to deliver milk for her six-month-old son more than three times a week. Anne has since tried to mend fences by appearing at a village fete, but she is not the sort who is likely to be beloved...
...find much sympathy for your skiinjury," it began cruelly. "You deserve it for the soft life you've been handed, you bastard. I hope it mends in time for your next big-shot fete. If it doesn't, maybe you can make up a good story about how you got your limp, one that Zbiggy or Gore or Truman or Jackie will swallow like hot pate...
...Hasty Pudding's annual parade to fete its "Woman of the Year" will start tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the intersection of Harvard St. and Mass Ave, proceeding down Mass Ave to the Hasty Pudding clubhouse on Holyoke...