Word: francia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around the globe, others shared America's enthusiasm. In Paris, emergency electrical generators were turned on to keep TV tubes glowing through the night. In a crowded bar on Rome's Corso di Francia, one Italian disparaged the Apollo achievement-and was clobbered in a fist-swinging, bottle-throwing brawl. In Japan, Emperor Hirohito canceled a botanical outing in the woods to watch TV. In Germany and in Uruguay, police reported a sharp drop in crime while Eagle was resting on the moon. Said a West Berlin police sergeant: "I wish there were moon landings every night...
There were times when it was hard to tell who was shooting at whom or who held what ground. At the corner of Avenida Francia and Calle Rosa Duarte, an Airborne colonel asked a Marine lieutenant his line of fire. "Before us, sir, and down the street." "Damn it," roared the colonel, "that's the 82nd Airborne before you!" In a strafing attack on the city's rebel-held radio station, a pair of General Imbert's loyalist F-51 fighters from San Isidro airbase accidentally machine-gunned a nearby Marine position. U.S. troops promptly shot down...
...battalion of frock-coated military-academy cadets stood ramrod straight; eight mariachi bands and two brass bands took their positions. Fifteen thousand people milled around expectantly. Across the airport roof stretched a sign etched in blue flowers: "Francia y México par la Paz del Mundo-Viva Francia." Then out of a warm, clear sky whistled the white-and-blue-trimmed Caravelle carrying Charles de Gaulle. Down the steps he lumbered, over to a red dais, and to the first crack of a 21-gun salute, France's towering (6 ft. 4 in.) President leaned low and bussed...
...rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections...
...method was to draw in the outline of his composition first, then concentrate on light and shadow, and finally fill in the color. In time, other artists freed themselves from the necessity of drawing. Compared with Greenwich Hospital or Wheatley's Donnybrook Fair, the watercolors of Louis Thomas Francia, Peter de Wint, and the great Joseph Mallord William Turner seem to have been dipped in the atmosphere. There is no missing the cold dampness of De Wint's Cowes Castle, the warmth of Turner's Weymouth, or the misty majesty of Francia's Mousehold Heath...