Word: frenchmens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time in the U.S., where she studied the Women's Liberation movement. "What I saw and heard impressed me. I decided it was high time to strike a blow for women in France [by] attacking a citadel of male chauvinism. I wanted to put the immortals and all Frenchmen face to face with their contradictions...
Aristocrats make just awful tyrants, admitted that fairest-minded of Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville. But at their best, he insisted, "they rarely entertain groveling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt for petty pleasures, even when they indulge in them...
...reprisal for an attack on a German garrison by the Resistance, Nazi troops marched scores of Frenchmen to the Place de Souillac in the southwestern town of Tulle. From every tree in and around the little square, from every balcony and lamppost hung a rope with a ready noose; next to each stood two ladders and two waiting SS men. As each victim mounted one ladder, one of the Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder...
...could order Lammerding's arrest-if it feels it has sufficient evidence. Foreseeing that possibility, Lammerding recently turned his business affairs over to his son and moved to the West German village of Greiling, just across the border from Austria. If Germany does not arrest him, some Frenchmen have already threatened to settle the matter in their own way. Last month, when more than 5,000 mourners demonstrated in Tulle to demand punishment for Lammerding, many of them warned that they would organize a commando raid and kidnap him, as the Israelis had Adolf Eichmann...
French Movie Hero Alain Delon has covered himself with real-life gloire by pulling off a dramatic rescue. What he saved was one of the great historic documents of modern France-the manuscript of Charles de Gaulle's resounding, rallying cry to Frenchmen during the dark days of June 1940. "France has lost a battle! But France has not lost the war!" De Gaulle wrote from the Free French headquarters that he had established in London. "France . . . will regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word...