Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority speaks for active resistance groups. The spokesman for resistance is a member called René Ferrière (who for security reasons cannot be photographed or described). Ferrière calls himself "le français du trottoir"-the Frenchman in the street. When he arrived in Algiers, he was as unaware as most Frenchmen of the confusion there. He had expected much: "After two days," he said, "I was completely bewildered, cried all night and intended to return to France the next day." He has stayed long enough to see the leading men of Vichy cleaned...
When France collapsed in 1940 the New Caledonians threw their Vichy governor out and put a Free Frenchman in his place. In March 1942, the U.S. Navy moved into Noumea's magnificent harbor to make it an important base for its South Pacific campaign...
...usually kept in Moscow, have to get their news secondhand from communique and Soviet papers. At Kharkov, for the first time in the memory of the oldest Moscow writer, they were allowed to cover a Russian news event at the scene. A dozen U.S. and British reporters and one Frenchman left Moscow's Metropole Hotel before dawn, drove to an airfield, flew at housetop height to Kharkov. Interpreters translated for them during the proceedings, then transcribed their stories speedily into Russian, telegraphed them back to Moscow for cabling. A Red Army officer couriered dispatches to telegraph offices...
...picture itself is a good and interesting variation on a well-worn theme. An American tank loses its formation and, in subsequent wanderings across the Saharan wastes, picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...
...Charles Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution (it was evolved long before him by his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, the Frenchman Jean Lamarck, Greek philosophers...