Word: habitante
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L'horreur, l'horreur: Les Canadiens sont morts. --Un Habitant
Much of the province's development dates from the early 1960s, when it underwent an expansion of education and state enterprises that French-speaking Quebecois call la Révolution Tranquille (the Quiet Revolution). With the door suddenly open to new opportunities, the church-oriented conservative rural habitant rapidly evolved into...
In The Book of Sand, those perplexities can be shadowed by pessimism. "Now things are going badly," says Borges in a conversation with his younger self. "Russia is taking over the world; America, hampered by the superstition of democracy, can't make up its mind to become an empire...
By the way, the "H" on the Canadians uniforms stands for Habitant. It's been there for many years because many of the Montreal hockey players like soup...The ice in the Boston Garden is all ready for the playoff series. "It's all hard and frozen," one worker commented...
The old rocking chair, long a symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent...