Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said he in a little noticed speech to France's Center of Advanced Military Studies fortnight ago: "If France should have to fight a war, then it must be its own war. It must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion . . . Naturally, if the case demands, French defense will be coupled to that of other countries, but . . . the system of integration which prevailed during a certain epoch...
...position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace be lost was less forceful when Khrushchev himself seems to be in no hurry for a summit. The French offered him two dates for his pre-summit visit to Paris-Feb. 20 or mid-March. Khrushchev chose the later date, blandly explaining from wintry Moscow that the weather in Paris was likely to be better then...
...American, British, French, and West German commission is weighing whether to grant a request by Adenauer that Krupp be allowed to keep his multibillion-dollar interests...
...Corbusier, noted French modern architect, will design the new $1.2 million Visual Arts Center for the College. The Center, scheduled to occupy the present site of Farlow House, will be Le Corbusier's first building constructed in this country...
...later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred devoted seven years to casting a cannon in steel instead of the traditional bronze; the weapon later pulverized the French in the six-month...