Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tells how the last issue of TIME to reach him somehow got through to occupied France, "where the German officers quartered in my home read it with great interest but never figured out that it was verboten literature; the Hun is as stupid as ever." Still another Frenchman writes that "during the Battle of Normandy bombardments and air fights raged all around my house, and it was a miracle that we were saved. It was a great sight when the Americans came." An old lady writes: "I was evacuated and found myself on the highways with little money...
...American married to a Frenchman adds: "For years TIME was a precious bond bringing my homeland into clear focus each week. Five years of war make me value such a bond more than ever...
...just nothing on them, nothing but yellowish or brownish skin stretched, tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious, almost hysterical way that you sometimes smile at overwhelming horror...
...Frenchman minimizes the enormous difficulties ahead, but all remember how France came back from the wars of 1870 and 1914-18. Few are as pessimistic as U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, who thinks that France will need 20 years to complete its reconstruction...
...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...