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Word: gateau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awkward but hardly fatal; for De Gaulle, it would be easy and would hardly change a thing. Sheltered behind Germany, France will have to be defended by NATO's sword and shield, member or not, in the event of Russian attack. So De Gaulle can have his gateau and eat it too. The U.S. simply intends to keep an empty chair waiting for France's return at some future date-A.D.G., or apres De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: MUST ANYTHING BE DONE ABOUT EUROPE? | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...CLICK. And one Spanish maid, after long employment had given her confidence, approached her mistress and asked her why on several occasions she had been ordered to put the family cat in the icebox. It is easy to see why the cat was cold. Gato is Spanish for cat; gateau is French for cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: The Cat in the Icebox | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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