Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foil, Harvard All-American Tom Keller took all three of his bouts and in the process improved his season's mark to 21-3. Perhaps the most exciting match of the night was Keller's first round bout against Guy Pommares, a swashbuckling Frenchman who started playing with swords...
Ready is the word. Before the season began, Béranger allowed that his hope was "to have a Frenchman and a French girl win the World Cup." As of last week, with four French skiers in the top five places in both the women's and men's divisions, his hope seemed a certainty...
...Asked if he expected to stay in office until 1983. the year a presumptive second seven-year term would end. Pompidou tossed off a double allusion when he replied: "As you like it." He may have been referring to Shakespeare's comedy. But as a Frenchman, he might also have had in mind a 19th century play of the same name by Alfred de Musset...
...every tree in and around the little square, from every balcony and lamppost hung a rope with a ready noose; next to each stood two ladders and two waiting SS men. As each victim mounted one ladder, one of the Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder. In all, 99 Frenchmen, aged 17 to 45, were hanged. Their bodies were buried in the town garbage dump...
...Free French headquarters that he had established in London. "France . . . will regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word message was written had disappeared. Then, four days after De Gaulle's death, an unidentified Frenchman offered it to a Paris auction expert named Pierre de St. Cyr for $100,000, with the stipulation that the sale be secret and that it be made to a foreigner. Shocked at this unpatriotic profiteering, De St. Cyr informed Delon, who sent for a friend from Buenos Aires. Equipped with...