Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch a Jeanne Crain movie, The Tattered Dress, on their home projector in the grey stucco mess hall. While they were absorbed in the first reel, six Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT submachine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the terrorists opened fire...
...strike was called in Montreal by 74 French-language TV producers, finally settled after 68 bitter days-while CBC President Alphonse Ouimet collapsed of a heart attack...
...French viewers were outraged by a décolletage-studded dramatization of the life of Quebec's Mother Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, aired on the day she was beatified in Rome; Members of Parliament clamored for the jobs of the producers...
...window with his hands on his round paunch, loved to answer his own questions to doctoral candidates as a kind of final blessing. Scholar Jaeger will stay in Cambridge, continue his great critical edition (ten volumes) of the works of Gregory of Nyssa,* the first such attempt since the French Revolution. Said Harvard Greek Professor John Finley in a farewell oration to Jaeger not long ago (following the remarks of Pupil Theophrastus to Master Aristotle): "Happy they with whom he lives, like Hesiod's people for whom the oak at its summit bears acorns, and in its middle branches...
...Netty, a French brassière, is displayed by a curvy salesgirl busily selling ties to two gallant Gallic gentlemen. Ever so often, as the salesgirl writhes closer to the counter, she dissolves like a nervous ghost, leaving only a suddenly unoccupied bra for her customers to gape...