Word: fored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guards parade ("The young princess had some difficulty in persuading her mount to settle down. But it was done . . coolly and decisively"). She also painted a vivid word picture of the scene at this year's Royal Ascot races ("an air of enthusiasm about it never seen be fore"). There were only a couple of things wrong with the story: neither event ever took place. Because of the British railroad strike, both were canceled, but not in time to catch Crawfie's column, which goes to press six weeks be fore it comes...
...digging out the facts and criticizing the contradictions and mistakes of this Administration. "Seldom in contemporary history has an opposition party been so slow or so ineffective in its criticism of major policies as the Democrats in the last two years. They have been very much to the fore in criticizing the Dixon-Yates power contract, the President's association with Bobby Jones, the Administration's farm program, the trapping of squirrels on the White House lawn and Mr. Eisenhower's churchgoing, but on the big issues [of] civil liberties and peace and war, their tardiness...
...consultation," wrote Churchill gratefully). He designated "dear Anthony" as his heir apparent, and together they weathered the Tories' postwar exile from the government bench. Eden's chief role was to act as mediator between the Old Tories and the impetuous young Turks who were coming to the fore. He was always a better party man than Churchill...
...says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds...
Early Life. Born Aug. 18, 1908 in Béziers in southern France, the son of a French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the Paris Faculty of Law, where he met another brilliant young law student, Pierre Mendès-France. In 1931 Faure married tall, blonde, elegant Lucie Meyer, daughter of a prosperous silk merchant, took his old friend Mendès on the honeymoon-a months-long tour of Russia (Mend...