Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students in French A, French C, and German A attend class four times per week, the additional hour being devoted to practice in pronunciation in the language lab. The homework load is cut proportionally. At other colleges using the direct method, elementary languages are often run eight hours per week, in order to teach a new tongue more effectively and speedily...
...been to many parts of the world before coming here, and could speak just as well in English or French as Russian on a variety of subjects, and could always be counted on to play something on the piano...
Under a headline proclaiming, "De Gaulle Staggers NATO, Limits France to 'Own war,'" Volney D. Hurd reported that the President told the French Staff College "France will only 'associate' itself with its allies and will fight only what are clearly and exclusively 'its wars, using its men and its material, on its soil...
...days of Dulles' "agonizing reappraisal." How long this restraint will last is difficult to say. De Gaulle can be allowed to have his way on the dates and places of conferences; but if grandeur starts interfering with serious Western policy, obviously the United States must, however reluctantly, put the French in their place...
...foreign policy founded on mythical grandeur won't get very far, but the French don't seem to care...