Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactic of Silence. As the supreme crisis of the Fourth Republic edged into its second week, almost everybody involved in the maneuvering seemed to be playing a dangerous forcing role with a skillful caution that left room for retreat. Premier Pflimlin. gaining time with each day in office, was unflinching but not unyielding; he might have denounced the Algiers military junta for sedition, but he chose instead to remind it of its duty. The junta itself preserved a careful ambiguity about the source of its authority. Unpredictable Zealot Jacques Soustelle. greeted by fervent admirers in Algiers, nonetheless cried ou; "Long...
...joint chiefs of staff were placed under house arrest, and next day France's No. i soldier. General Paul Ely, chief of the joint chiefs, resigned in protest. The nation's 280.000 hardbitten police, who constitute a virtual army in themselves, still seemed loyal to the Fourth Republic. Paris, ringed by its famed "Red belt" of industrial suburbs, was as apt to be dominated by leftist mobs, if it came to that, as by the rightist mobs that rioted in Algiers...
...wings stood the waiting Charles de Gaulle, but doggedly holding the center of the parliamentary stage was Pierre Pflimlin, new Premier of France and head of France's 25th government since the war, in whose hands lay the fate of the Fourth Republic...
...time was a disappointment to Elliott. With no one pushing him, he complained, he had "faded a little" toward the end. All he had done was run a 3:57.8 mile, his fourth under four minutes and the second fastest ever. Only Britain's Derek Ibbotson. who last year was clocked in 3:57.2, has done better. But Ibbotson's time, like Elliott's, may never be accepted by the International Amateur Athletic Federation because both marks were made with the aid of "pacers.'' The world's record is still held by Australia...
...shut down earlier, stay closed longer when it retools for 1959 models. Counting heavily on a cleanup of the '58 models and the popularity of the new '59 cars, Ward's Automotive Reports hopefully predicted that "factory unemployment gloom will be quickly followed by a fourth-quarter burst of production prosperity that may rival...