Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average "white" because of his "chemically raised foodstuffs," little mention is made of the fact that the Anishinabe (Chippewa) was 6 ft. tall in 1700. The French called us "Sauters" among other names, meaning "Jumpers," for our ancestors went "bounding" through the forest and the short Frenchmen could not keep...
Almost as long as there have been scientists, man has been trying to measure the speed of light. In 1638, Galileo stationed a brace of lantern bearers on hilltops and tried to time their flashes-with no luck at all. Since then, Danes, Frenchmen and Americans have succeeded in narrowing down the figure to generally accepted modern-day figures, but the search for greater precision still goes...
...minutes, far longer than the five to nine minutes allotted to foreplay by 27% of the men and women. About 45% of the women (but only 19% of the men) said that they prefer to make love in total darkness. According to the report, the volubility of Frenchmen extends even to lovemaking. The majority of men talk during intercourse, while their partners are more silent-so much so that 64% of the men expressed the wish that the women would speak up more...
...Sorrow speaks with a very personal voice. It deals primarily with ordinary Frenchmen and Germans who have reduced the Holocaust to forms of individual and family history. Helmuth Tausend, a German officer stationed in Clermont-Ferrand, first speaks of the war as a six-year separation from his new bride. Marcel Verdier, a pharmacist, refers to the obsession with food he and his countrymen developed. Pierre Mendes-France, who was Secretary of State before the collapse, recalls both matters of government and of the desire for small needs like kitchen matches. Those who struggled against the Nazis give personal, seemingly...
...bewilderment, to the reactions of the Germans, to the recollections of the citizens of Clermont-Ferrand, culminating in the newsreel of Marshall Petain 'offering his person' to France as he surrenders her to Germany. As the scratched words of the newsreel play on. Ophuls alternates between the aging Frenchmen of the present to the faces of the past...