Word: frenchmen
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...Frenchmen grieved and worried. A Parisian flower-vendor propped a black headline, Roosevelt est mort, against his cart of bouquets - "for the death of a savior," he said. A bank clerk cried: "La voix de l'Amérique est diminuée de moitié - America's voice is reduced by half!" Hundreds signed the Embassy register. Hundreds sent cards of regret to Americans whom they had never known. Frenchmen came up to Americans in the streets, shook hands, and said: "We have lost our best friend. . . . What will happen...
...polyglot mass of Russians, Frenchmen, Poles, Belgians, Netherlander, Italians, Serbs, Bulgars, Greeks threatened to clog and millstone the victors in broken Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). They were going home or escaping war or just falling in with the vague, aimless movement of the mass...
Finding their English misunderstood un less spoken with a French accent, instructors soon learned to say "Zis ees zee way" instead of "This is the way." The apt Frenchmen were soon embellishing their meager English with a Southern accent...
...eagerness to be cordial to the Frenchmen, sleepy little Orangeburg also has run into minor misunderstandings. When a local girl told a Frenchman she slept in the same bed with her roommate, his eyebrows rose; finally someone explained what a roommate is. Another gave a hopeful start when a proper young Orangeburger at a party one warm night remarked in her best high-school French: "Je suis chaud" (literally, "I am warm," idiomatically, "I'm feeling sexy...
...three days I missed five meals, was strafed by jet planes twice, narrowly missed capture once, was kissed by at least 500 Russians and Frenchmen, was absolutely lost in Germany twice, ate four candy bars in one afternoon after not eating candy for 15 years at least, got myself three pairs of German binoculars and found a champagne factory, which a general commandeered next day after tasting some of my loot, was waved at by bevies of German civilians as if they were happy at being liberated, saw at least 5,000 German prisoners and flew back from Corps Headquarters...