Word: greve
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ELLEN GREVE...
Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...