Word: frenchman
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...help when Adenauer, momentarily carried away by his success, spoke of turning now to "the liberation" of Communist East Germany. (Later, admitting that the Chancellor's words had been unfortunate, an aide remarked: "We know that one shouldn't stamp his feet when a Frenchman is baking a souffl...
...paneled Paris office overlooking the Etoile last week sat a grey-haired, lean and elegant Frenchman, chain-smoking Havana cigars. In his buttonhole, Pierre Wertheimer, 65, wore the emblem of the Legion of Honor; on his glass-topped desk stood row after row of perfume bottles and boxes of cosmetics. They, too, were emblems of achievement. For Pierre Wertheimer, a man so shy that few have ever heard of him (he permits no photographs), is the world's perfume king. He owns the Bourjois and Chanel companies, bosses 3,000 employees in plants from Rochester, N.Y. to London, sells...
...Paris, so the story goes, an American was challenged by a Frenchman to a duel. As the challenged party, he had the choice of weapons. His choice-"double-barreled shotguns at 20 paces"-posed such a strong threat of mutual annihilation that the Frenchman called the whole thing...
...whose Supreme Commander is an American: General Alfred M. Gruenther. West Germany has no army, and as a defeated enemy, may not legally rearm until a peace treaty has been signed and sealed. To make German arms palatable to Europeans who still bore the teethmarks of Nazi aggression, a Frenchman (ex-Premier René Pleven) suggested EDC, which would add German strength to NATO, but still enable the West to keep an eye on German militarism...
...together with a rope, the two reached a tiny ledge at 10,000 ft. and paused to rest. The weather changed and storms swept the mountain flanks. The temperature fell below freezing. They huddled together, miserable and scared on the uncomfortable ledge. As time passed, one of the pair, Frenchman Claude Chulliat, 25, decided to risk his way down; his companion, George Barbacki, 23, a Pole, refused to budge. Chulliat started down alone...