Word: laval
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...during the late 1940s in Ottawa, then trained in espionage methods and cultivated as a Soviet agent while he studied in France and Britain. For reasons that remain unclear, Hambleton resigned from NATO in 1961. He returned to study in London and later joined Quebec's Laval University in 1964 to teach economics...
...thoroughness, the author reveals the hypocrisy of submission and the personal deceit practiced by Petain and his ilk. Once the Jewish extermination program was in place in 1942, the Vichy leaders had increasing difficulty explaining that concern for France justified an alliance with Hitler. Picking through conversations between Pierre Laval and Wehrmacht representatives, Pryce-Jones proves that Vichy cooperation went beyond facilitating the deportation of Jews. Laval knew that there were no "labor" camps at the end of the German train lines, but that did not concern him. His only thought was to use the twisted German racial ideology...
...poured the puck into the net so often that the French-speaking Quebecois adopted Bossy, whose parents are English, as one of their own, listing his name as Michel, not Mike, in the newspaper stories extolling his scoring exploits. In four years as a junior player with the Laval Nationals, he scored 308 goals, but was passed over by 14 teams in the amateur draft because it was thought he could not play defense. The Islanders snapped him up, and in his second season he led the league in goals with 69, a total bested only by Phil Esposito...