Word: fortunes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Is Truth? Edith Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...
...liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
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