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Word: frenched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some crucial groups, such as the Ceylonese and French West Africans, were truly uncommitted. There were satellite representatives ready to engage in reasonable discussion, despite a careful prior selection of delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Vienna Festival Chants 'Peace, Friendship' | 10/14/1959 | See Source »

...cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain's Rootes Group claims will run on "anything from lighter fuel to Scotch whisky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Paris Models | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Facel's Facellia, a handcrafted, sports-touring convertible designed for the overseas luxury market. First truly high-performance French car for the public since World War II, the Facellia features a four-cylinder, 115-h.p. engine with a top speed of 114 m.p.h. U.S. price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Paris Models | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Among the chief advocates of a return to the full gold standard for both the U.S. and European nations are French Economic Adviser Jacques Rueff, the architect of France's successful financial-austerity program, and Philip Cortney, president of Coty, Inc. and chairman of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOLD STANDARD: Should the U.S. Go Back to It? | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...story casts French Actor Michel Simon as an old, overstuffed priest. A village washerwoman (Sylvie) tells him that she is 62, tired and alone. For uncounted years she has turned out every morning at 5 to kneel washing clothes until dark, stopping only for a little bread and oil. Would the father and the church now mercifully grant her leave to take her own life? Another story is a screen version of Novelist Alberto Moravia's II Pupo. A straitened young couple have had one baby too many. They try to abandon it in a church, but it cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Italian Import | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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