Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Katherine Anne" was born Gallic Russell Porter in a two-room log cabin in Indian Creek, Texas. Before she was two, her mother died. She was brought up in a desolate little town of 500 souls, a whistle-stop for cattle trains between San Antonio and Austin, by her ferocious, puritanical grandmother Catherine...
...with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith was called out of a U.S. Marine Corps ball in Paris and summoned, in tuxedo, to the Quai d'Orsay for a chewing-out. Two days later Mitterrand declared, with Gallic sarcasm, "France is not a party to what is not even an agreement...
Except for his proud Gallic nose, the author blends in. He dresses in native furs, cracks the whip expertly over his sled team, and gnaws blubbery popsicles in the glow of an igloo oil lamp. He falls into the rhythms of polar life and begins to view this white-on-white world through the eyes of an Inuit...
Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...
...government has exerted intense diplomatic pressure, most notably through the Vatican and the Churches of other Eastern Bloc nations, on Jaruzelski's regime. And, of course, the French government's rapid condemnation of the Polish military dictatorship and of the Soviet involvement in Poland provided an unusual instance of gallic solidarity with the rest of Western alliance...