Word: frenchmen
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Former Premier Michel Debre is such a listless political personality that a current joke says he was once seen riding in an empty limousine. He has a fussy manner and a flat, whining voice that somehow rub politicians and many other Frenchmen the wrong way, obscuring his considerable administrative talents. In Charles de Gaulle's electoral landslide last November, Debre-the dedicated Gaullist. major architect of the Fifth Republic's constitution, and the man who served a longer uninterrupted period as Premier (1,193 days) than any other in French parliamentary history-was ignominiously defeated...
Once again, gunmen were at work in the streets of Paris, and Frenchmen huddled anxiously to speculate on the next moves of that ugly remnant of Algerian hatred, the Secret Army Organization. Each day's headlines brought some new reason for fear...
...their warships maneuvered miles apart. France and Brazil at week's end seemed in no danger of trading shots. But Frenchmen, who each year eat 2,500 tons of lobster, nearly a third of it imported from such lobstering grounds as Brazil's, were forced to ponder an unsettling choice of loyalties-palate or patrie-and ask themselves, what price grandeur...
...other Europeans railed against Charles de Gaulle's vision of a French-led Europe, many Frenchmen last week were uneasily contemplating De Gaulle's influence on their own society. Since the November election turned the National Assembly into a virtual annexe of the Elysée Palace, De Gaulle has ruled with little parliamentary criticism and with only muted rumblings from France's once rambunctious press...
...security rather than good looks. Women are particularly fond of men from the Benelux countries, and are especially leary of bakers, butchers and innkeepers, afraid that they will ask them to help out with the business. And how about love? "Love," sniffs one German, "is for teen-agers-and Frenchmen...