Word: gallicly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply comprehensive-and sympathetic-of all the ills that plague France at the present time as reflected by French youth and interpreted through American eyes. Even after years of close and happy association with my French friends, I still never fail to be appalled by the very typically Gallic shrug of the shoulders accompanied by the timeworn and threadbare excuses which reach back to the War of 1870 and the Prussian occupation of Paris...
...historians stated clearly that at that time (October), the river was in flood. The Isére does not flood in October, but another tributary, the Durance, does. Another clue in favor of the Durance is that Hannibal was reported to have passed three Gallic tribes. Old records show that their territories became modern dioceses on the Durance...
André Siegfried, who in 1927 wrote an elegantly incisive book about the U.S. entitled America Comes of Age, has revised his famous but outmoded theme to match midcentury headlines. With his Gallic zest for the provocative generalization unfettered by footnotes, the sprightly old (80) professor now says that Europe's giant "daughter" is moving away from parental traditions so fast that the old folks may soon have trouble recognizing their offspring as their...
...machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens of thousands of other U.N. soldiers into combat in Korea...
...French Premiers. In its 51 years the orchestra has had 13 "permanent" conductors, and few of them managed to last more than a season or two. Seattle's worst moment came in 1951, when French Conductor Manuel Rosenthal was forbidden re-entry to the U.S. for a Gallic breach of morals (the official reason was perjury concerning his marital status when he returned; the lady who traveled with him was not his wife). After the symphony's officials stopped blushing, they decided not to hire anyone for a while but to study a relay of guest conductors...