Word: gare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time was 1937. The place: Paris. Both men were Communist functionaries. Koestler, in fact, had just been sprung from a Franco prison and, as a liberal martyr, was welcomed with flowers at the Gare du Nord. But by then Comrade Koestler had already changed ideological trains. The moment had come during the Spanish Civil War when he was in jail as a Red spy. In cell 40, Seville Prison, the wisdom of Marx and Freud proved nothing against the presence of death and the pity for those who went nightly, crying "Madre"before the firing squads. Into...
...Concordat? Out of the Rome express at Paris' Gare de Lyon one drizzly morning fortnight ago stepped the Master General of the Dominican Order, the most Rev. Emanuel Suarez. He slipped into a waiting car which drove straight to Dominican headquarters in the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore and a nervous welcome...
Navarre organized a spy and counterspy ring which was never uncovered during the Nazi occupation, although he had a series of hairbreadth escapes. Once, when he had a rendezvous with an agent in Paris' gloomy old Gare St. Lazare, the man failed to appear. He had been seized by the Germans, and they had squeezed out of him the word of the appointment with Navarre. There were six Gestapo men in the station looking for the spymaster. But Navarre, scenting the new wind, coolly joined a long line of ticket buyers, stood on a crowded platform reading a newspaper...
Inspired by such exclamations, about 300 enthusiastic young Communists, with red roses and carnations in their hands and the Internationale on their lips, gathered at Paris' Gare du Nord on a chilly, drizzly morning, waiting for the Nord Express and their idol. But the Communist Party was not yet ready to expose the wonders of Soviet medicine to their view. At St. Quentin, 80 miles from Paris, the door of a special Polish private car attached to the Nord Express opened, and Thorez showed himself...
When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...