Word: gros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stifling France since the war; but at the same time, he was forced to use repressive measures by current economic emergencies, and by his Socialist colleagues, who were committed to a controlled economy. His dilemma was well illustrated by the affair of what the French used to call their gros fafiots (five grand...
...with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...
Rousset lost 90 pounds in the concentration camps, but he is back to normal now and his English wife calls him "mon gros...
Jean Lurçat returned from World War I with a mangled hand. At first he could not hold a brush, so his mother got him interested in gros point embroidery. In that way he acquired an interest in cloth art which lasted even after his hand improved and he was able to go back to painting...
...miles west of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. other provost officers, aided by Mounties, were staging another manhunt. In two cars and a truck they drove to the road's end at the foot of lonely Gros Cap hill. Then they trudged on snowshoes up the steep hill to a well-hidden, log-and-tar-paper shanty at the top. Outside, the officers pounced on five unshaven, bedraggled youths. Inside they found seven more, plus large stores of butter, canned goods, milk, cigarets, coffee, bread...