Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French bomber at Bizerte. As the base commander shook hands with Dayan, his Gallic glance fell on a pair of female legs groping helplessly from the underside of the plane for a ladder that was not yet there. "We choose secretaries with prettier legs than those," cracked the Frenchman. Moments later Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, emerged from the plane...
...France as a columnist for the weekly L'Express, Revel cast his beady eye upon a more solid target, sacred, large, fixed as a monument: Charles de Gaulle himself. Then Revel had a splendid idea. As a Frenchman in search of the ultimate heresy, why not-sacre bleu! -write a book in praise of the United States...
Without Marx or Jesus is the result. Already a bestseller in France, it promises to be one of those literary causes celebres that Americans like to discuss without necessarily reading. Revel operates from two unprovable premises with a passion for abstract generalization that seems extreme even for a Frenchman. Premise 1: "If mankind is to survive," Revel thunders, the world must have a revolution. Premise 2: Such a revolution can start only...
Whether the applicant is a Frenchman eager to marry before departing for Africa the next day, or a man and woman anxious to legitimize their newborn child, Bouvet obliges by donning his tricolor sash and officiating at a town-hall ceremony. "Mind you, I don't marry just anyone," says Bouvet. "First, I have a chat with the couple. If I feel something's wrong, then I refuse to marry them. But red tape shouldn't be allowed to thwart love and marriage...
Next to his liver, the Frenchman's chief preoccupation is his language. One of the main reasons why Charles de Gaulle blocked British membership in the Common Market for nearly a decade was his fear that French would lose its place as the premier language on the Continent...