Word: frenchwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Locomotive God. Loewy first dreamed of building cars and locomotives in Paris, where he was born and spent the first 26 years of his life. His father, Maximilian, was a Viennese journalist; his mother, Marie Labalme, a sturdy Frenchwoman who prodded her children by continually telling them: "Better to be envied than pitied." Young Raymond, the third of three sons, filled his school notebooks with so many sketches of locomotives, automobiles and airplanes that his parents sent him to engineering school...
...Mind. His failure to do so highlighted the greatest crisis of all-the crisis of the imagination. Civilizations do not fall primarily by a failure of force. They fall because of a failure of the mind and the instinct to survive. It was this failure that a Frenchwoman had in mind when she said to an American, in a sweltering Paris restaurant last week: "The fate of Western civilization is being settled now-this week. And there seems to be nobody, in your country or mine, or in any country, with enough imagination to save...
...meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles. Some nine minutes later in regimented single file, with Champion Zaitseva in the lead, all seven crossed the finish line, 50 yards ahead of the first Frenchwoman. Six other French girls had quit cold in the first 1,000 meters. "The Russians were too formidable," said one. "Anyway it was too wet and I wanted to get home...
...Frenchwoman [who lived] in France during all the German occupation [and who] saw them in Nice, July 1944, in the middle of the afternoon in front of all the population, hang two young Maqu's men. ... It was with tears in my eyes that I read those terrible words "Odious & Disgusting" [TIME, May 6], criticizing . . . your own boys, liberators, conquerors of all Europe ! With, as you said, only a bar of chocolate to offer, this same G.I. always gave it to an old woman, child or starving girl friend. In Nice 20,000 G.I.s came every week...
...secluded old house in the Luxembourg forests, twelve men were hard at work. Now & then, an ample Frenchwoman served food and hot coffee. A Luxembourg police officer shivered outside in the cold rain. His job: guarding "Operation Annie," the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe...