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...after all, Dice can bench a lot more than I can). Todd tried to get her up, but was unsuccessful, seeing that she was barely conscious and kept asking him to lie down with her. Eventually, Todd asked if she knew who he was, to which she replied, "Yeah, Gambetta, come back...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: GOING GREEK | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...fast-paced story follows. the life of Gambetta Stevenson, from his childhood in a small Southern Town during the first World War to his career as a semi-successful Hollywood actor. Though Leland packs a thick wad of detail to satisfy the historical novel lovers out there, the real story is the obsessive love Stevenson bears for his stepmother, Mrs. Randall...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Teaching and Doing | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...businesslike Reds moved right into Hanoi's government offices as if they always had occupied them. Slight, youthful-looking General Giap prepared to take over at the Citadelle, where French generals had given orders since the days of Gambetta and MacMahon and where, nine years ago, they had gallantly held out against the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Hanoi | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

French Foreign Legion, had 22 battle citations and the mystique of a great tradition: "The Legion is Our Country." Many times the Legion had fought for honor in a losing cause, for Gambetta at Orleans, for Maximilian in Mexico. Now there were 1,500 Legionnaires in Indo-China ready to die for Strongpoint Isabelle. They were commanded by Colonel André Lalande from St. Cyr Military Academy, veteran of Narvik, El Alamein, Italy and the Vosges. Lalande was a tough customer: his Legionnaires called him "baroudeur," a brawler. Lalande did not wait for the Communists to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...called the favorable vote a "reinvestiture." The left-wing Franc-Tireur mocked: "Here he is consenting once more to become Mr. Interim." No one needed to point out that, although M. Laniel's government would be represented at Berlin, there would be no Frenchman there comparable to Clemenceau, Gambetta, Jaures. Briand, Poincare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: How to Stay Alive | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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