Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are Frenchmen who will go to almost any lengths to prevent German rearmament under EDC. Much of this sentiment exists among the nationalist adherents of Charles de Gaulle. Last month the bitter general himself said that France "is still an ally of Russia in case of German menace," and last week another Gaullist cried that "America's attempts to push France into EDC are really pushing France into the arms of Russia...
...19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office a month hence, when France gets a new President and a new government, nor could either say surely where...
...founded had just put out a supplement to its six-volume Larousse du XXe Siècle, and by doing so, it had brought up to date France's foremost dictionary-encyclopedia. Today the Larousse books are the final popular arbiters for French words: nine out of ten Frenchmen know them, and eight out of ten families own either the one-volume Petit Larousse (1,800 pages, 70,000 words and articles), the two-volume Nouveau Larousse Universel (2,176 pages, 138,423 words and articles), or the definitive dictionary itself with 6,500 pages and 236,000 words...
...loved orange juice, big breakfasts, drugstores, jazz (Chicago and New Orleans style), as well as movies, museums, old cowboy songs and. at the right time, a hamburger. Toward the end of her trip she began to learn that Americans were individuals and as hard to generalize about as Frenchmen. But she faithfully kept on generalizing. Relations between the sexes were difficult in the U.S., she feared. "Men shut themselves up in their clubs, women take refuge in theirs." Sexual frustration seemed typical, with the women frigid, the men inept. Whisky was the means of destroying inhibitions. "It's very...
...anti-Communist Chinese newspapers, even those critical of Chiang, now talk about "U.S. double-faced diplomacy." One said that "Ike and Dulles have stepped right into Acheson's shoes." Though Secretary Dulles has bulled through a special $387 million grant to bolster anti-Communist resistance in Indo-China, Frenchmen frequently grumble: Why should we fight our Communists to a finish when you did not fight yours to a finish in Korea...