Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishop Fracçois Poirier, Haiti's highest prelate, who is also French-born and white, this was too much. He notified parish priests up and down the island of the expulsions, followed with a denunciation of the government's action. Duvalier retaliated with a warrant for the archbishop's arrest for violating the 1860 Haiti-Vatican Concordat, which binds priests "to do nothing against the interests of the republic...
Every centimeter an equestrienne on her white mount, Yasmin Khan, 9, daughter of Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hay worth, displayed some reinless riding form in the posh French seaside resort of Deauville. Recently a subject of perennial squabbling between her parents, well-to-do Yasmin is now spending the summer with her fast-living father...
...April 20), London's Economist declared: "Dr. Adenauer has chosen to make a political issue of the gnat bites of individual British critics, and to make use of them in opposing British policies." Along with the Economist, most Britons professed to find it hard to understand why the French and Germans should get so worked up over attacks from papers notorious for their lack of influence on British policy...
...alike chattered with rage at a paper few of them had ever read-London's jingoistic, whopping (circ. 4,052,712 cut) that showed Charles de Gaulle and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, fused into a two-headed monster, laying a wreath on the grave of onetime French Premier and Nazi Collaborator Pierre Laval...
...this "scoop" by Herald Air Correspondent Gilbert Carter was that West German money and scientists were helping to build France's Abomb. Outraged, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss denounced Carter's story as a phony, invited Carter to inspect West German research centers-and the French-German Ballistics Research Institute in Alsace-to see for himself. For telltale days Carter hesitated; when he finally did accept, it was with the face-saving declaration that the only thing that would convince him he was wrong was a look at the French bomb...