Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After mulling over this prospect for two days, the bitter rivals got together. Emerging from the Palacio like a couple of spanked schoolboys, Jefes Carlos Lleras Restrepo of the Liberals and Guillermo León Valencia of the Conservatives pledged support to the government's peace program. As a starter, they sent bipartisan posses out to convince troublemakers that the killing off of each other's voters was no way to win an election...
Within a few days of the announcement the bistros and ateliers of Paris were seething with gossip. Hallmark's top prizes were such as only a Picasso or Matisse could expect for a canvas. Almost instantly, the French had a name for the whole thing: le plan Marshall de la peinture. That meant that Frenchmen would take sides on the Hallmark Plan just as on ECA. Screamed the Communists: "Nothing but an effort to destroy our national independence...
...Le Diable au Corps by Raymond Radiguet, a precocious protege of Jean Cocteau, who began it in 1920 when he was 17, published it in 1923, the year he died...
...made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence for him: "Je ficherais le camp [I would beat it]." Thorez flushed, but he made no retort...
Wednesday professors Frank and le Corbellier noted the effect of science on human values...