Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what it used to do when it was not chasing the enemy. It was chasing girls. The French cavalry was particularly well trained in this peacetime maneuver, and of all the young French officers none was more swift, more sure in the pursuit than Lieut. Armand de la Verne (Gerard Philipe) of the 33rd Dragoons. Cocksure he was, and one day he laid a bet he could have any woman in town within a month-put their names in a hat and take your pick...
Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper at the University of Chicago, working at the McDonald Observatory, Texas, reported another color change on Mars. Its dark areas, which are generally supposed to be some sort of vegetation, are unusually drab this year. They are neutral grey, instead of the dull green that he had expected...
...Father. Fernand Gerard Doucin is a punctual insomniac who wakes promptly at 5 a.m. and gives his entire life an hour's third degree before lapsing back into troubled sleep. He often wakes in a sweat from a repetitive dream in which he bashes in his father's head with an ax. Like most of his dreams, this is quite out of keeping with Fernand's daytime self. By day he is a timid bank clerk with little hope and no desire for promotion, and equally small fears of being fired. He is dumpy, bald...
...abominably filthy Mexican village. There, stretched flat on the floor boards of a squalid second-class bus, a European traveler (Andre Toffel) is dying of cerebrospinal meningitis. His wife (Michele Morgan) rushes out to look for the local doctor, but all she finds is a wambling wreck (Gerard Philipe) who has not dared to push a pill since his wife died in a childbirth he drunkenly mismanaged...
Protest of 100. Again the press protested. More than 100 editors and re- porters signed a protest denouncing the government for making a criminal offense of "the free exercise of the functions of a journalist." At week's end, with Claude Gerard still in the general women's prison of Paris, the government let it be known unofficially that she would not be sent to Algeria for trial. It appeared that Newshen Gerard would soon be free on the same provisional basis as Barrat, but the government still plainly held the threat of jail over any correspondent...