Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moslem Joan. Abbane, 38, was typical of the single-minded fanatics who emerge from every revolutionary situation. Asked how he managed to stand the strain of terrorist activity, he snapped: "It's easy. I get up angry in the morning and I go to bed angry at night." Abbane was a Kabyle, a member of a rugged mountain race that looks down on the other Berber tribes and especially on the Arab Algerians of the cities. The Kabyles' history is old and militant: under King Jugurtha, they held off the might of ancient Rome for five bloody years...
...because of his preoccupation with French prestige and the safeguarding of French national interests, De Gaulle won himself the name of an intransigent troublemaker. Franklin Roosevelt, reporting on the Casablanca Conference in a letter to his son John, wrote: "The day [De Gaulle] arrived he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted he was Georges Clemenceau." A series of equally bitter arguments over British policy in Syria and Madagascar led Winston Churchill to complain: "Of all the crosses I have borne since 1940 none is so heavy as the Cross of Lorraine...
...with wire sculptures. He created out of wire a whole circus, complete with leaping trapeze artists, jumping kangaroos and horse-hurdling bareback riders. Their mobility, controlled by springs and a master crank, charmed a Paris Left Bank audience that included Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger and Joan Miro. The mobile was being born...
Last week Steele, Joan and Taj Joan all hit the spot-the one marked X-at Pepsi's annual stockholders' meeting. Reason: a small note on page 6 of the annual proxy statement...
...Before that, Joan was married...