Word: la
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when beliefs spill into unwarranted disruption, a professor's duty is to refuse to condone it, to explain that disruption is the opposite of that reform which is so vehemently demanded, and to expose fanaticism wherever it comes from. That students of today's Western societies should act out "La Chinoise" is understandable; but, ion this instance, that some colleagues should flatter them and egg them on is unforgivable
...result of research by Department of Agriculture scientists, an unskilled la borer can now equal the speed of a shear er by literally peeling wool from a sheep with his bare hands...
...books published about Charles de Gaulle, the most engrossing may well be a little biography for children, complete with charming drawings and simple text. Yet the unknown author, writing under the pseudonym Xavier Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled...
...emptying schools and offices, stripping military installations of active-duty personnel, and decimating Broadway casts. Jane Morgan in the title role and eight other players in Mame had to yield their places to understudies. The cast of George Ml had five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even...
...hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston in 1387 wrote a delightfully detailed treatise on the hunt titled Le Livre de la Chasse...