Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who, "by their knowledge, their virtues, their talent," have upheld the principles of the French Republic. He will be entitled to wear the inconspicuous red lapel ribbon, and will find special seats reserved for him at parades and other functions-joining the democratic company of the 196,146 Frenchmen who also have the Legion of Honor...
...sort of Gallic Webster's) defined "Greek" as meaning, among other things, roué, fripon, escroc-1) rakehell, 2) swindler, 3) crook. For nearly a century the Greek government has bombarded the Quai d'Orsay with complaints, to no avail. That, said Larousse stiffly, is the way Frenchmen talk, and that is the way they must be reported...
Although inflation had been creeping up in France for some months, the headlong drop was unexpectedly sudden. Frenchmen evidently feared that France's rearmament effort will be a real strain on resources when it changes from a sizable figure (on paper) of 10% of the gross national product to an even greater figure of actual production. Consequently, they were turning their francs into gold, dollars and goods. They also knew that if sterling was devalued, the franc-contrary to experience in September 1949-would not be prevented this time from following it all the way down...
...European Allies' attempts to use food as a political lever (Winston Churchill's Admiralty strongly suggested to the Foreign Office that Hoover was spying for the Germans). Before Americans had come to know the stolid, moonfaced man in the high collar, he was a hero to Poles, Frenchmen, Baits, Russians, Hungarians...
Christmas dinner in the French strongholds. The French commanders themselves had given up hope of victory. At this nadir, De Lattre was sent from France. Within weeks he worked a change of spirit, and reversed the tide of war. Frenchmen could only compare it to the miracle of the Marne...