Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert settlement of Hammoudia, some 25 miles down the sand track from Reggan in the southwest French Sahara, is the front gate of a huge military reserve where 4,500 French technicians and troops work among the intricate gadgets of the Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude...
Price never forgets the housewife in planning his houses, has introduced countless innovations to save time, labor and space. In his 1960 line of all-aluminum French Regency houses, he has installed a "traffic-flo" bathroom with two entrances to cut down traffic jams...
...Relatively free of footnotes, the book is really one gigantic footnote to Proust's masterpiece. When he is not playing the elaborate chess game of fact v. fiction, Author Painter does communicate his passionate curiosity about Proust, and he draws a lively portrait of the sick, sick, sick French society that molded the Proustian sensibility...
Image of America, by R. L. Bruckberger. A literate, levelheaded French priest gives a lambent account of how the American Revolution turned dream into reality, while the Russian Revolution turned mirage into nightmare...
Robert Rogers of the Rangers, by John R. Cuneo. An able biography of the New Hampshire farmer who became the backwoods scourge of the French and Indian War, later planned a fruitless search for the Northwest Passage...