Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Renewed hard fighting seemed to be the next step. The French have stopped issuing accurate regular reports of military activity, but rebel bombs have been exploding in Algerian towns. On the main highway out of Algiers, four Frenchmen were kidnaped last week, and four more were mowed down in an ambush in the center of Affreville, just 44 miles from the capital. Reshuffling the top command, the F.L.N. installed a tough, 28-year-old guerrilla with the nom de guerre of Houari Boumedienne as rebel army chief of staff...
...silenced, or complaining in lowered tones. The farmers federations only muttered their "very great surprise." From this brusque drama two conclusions were to be drawn: 1) it is still considered politically unprofitable to attack De Gaulle openly; and 2) clear as the drift to one-man government may be, Frenchmen by and large are willing to let it happen. Nonetheless, a considerable disillusionment with De Gaulle had set in. So far it was largely confined to Parliament and a few Parisian editorialists whose consent to one-man government was based on a belief that only De Gaulle could bring peace...
...Wells she has gone forth in her sensible shoes to teach the English way to King Hussein, ex-King Farouk, Prince Rainier, and the daughters of the King of Denmark. So ubiquitous was her kind, in fact, that former French Premier Georges Bidault once bitterly complained: "Too many important Frenchmen have been given an inferiority complex for life by being brought up by English nannies...
...Charrier?" Ostensibly, the ads were intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they...
...Frenchmen, who delight in intellectualizing sex as much as they do politics, noted that the principal difference between the old-style poule de luxe and the new téléfilles was the elimination of the pimp, who has traditionally dominated Parisian prostitutes and exacted a brutal tribute from their earnings. In the opinion of Judge Marcel Sacotte, who has written a modest but informative monograph on the subject, the call girl is better educated than ordinary prostitutes. Gabrielle had insisted that each of her girls supply proof of her education, discretion and relatively amateur standing, and her list...