Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bankrupt French company that had tried-under the guidance of Ferdinand de Lesseps, supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...French about the prospect of a Socialist government with Communist members. It is an adventure that no longer frightens many of them. Even some businessmen who once recoiled in horror at the idea seem resigned to living with it. It is Barre's job to help Giscard convince Frenchmen otherwise, because so far they have not been impressed by Giscard alone...
...ordeal of Mme. Claustre continued to rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...
...ordinary Frenchmen, Prince Jean de Broglie appeared the very model of titled rectitude. Descended from one of the country's most illustrious families, De Broglie became a Resistance hero during World War II, served under Charles de Gaulle in various ministerial posts and was a key member of the French team that negotiated Algerian independence in 1962. He was a former secretary-general of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's Independent Republican Party and had held a seat in the National Assembly since...
...supporters, grim at the outset but suddenly fired-up as they interrupted Chirac 96 times during his speech, by all accounts called to mind the Frenchmen who have found anti-reform, authoritarian appeals attractive in the past, particularly during the pre-World War II depression. France is again suffering a severe economic crisis; after a decade of industrial boom, the average Frenchman is faced with bewildering jumps in both inflation and unemployment. The "little guy" has become fed up, and Chirac is capitalizing on this despair...