Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent Quebec court case, Judge Oscar Boulanger spoke his outrage at French-speaking witnesses who used English words for the parts of a car. Example: "le steering knuckle-arm" for la tige du joint de direction. Along Quebec roads, French-speaking motorists ask for "gas" instead of essence...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher and Ça, c'est le...
Last week the French press was in another desperate fight for survival. In two months, one in seven of the country's 164 dailies had folded, including four out of ten Communist mouthpieces. In Paris, the Socialist Party's Le Populaire, its circulation down from 350,000 to 93,000, was publicly begging for funds. The M.R.P.'s L'Aube (down from 200,000 to 80,000) was living from week to week on party handouts. Said a panicky government official: "A general crackup ... is feared. We don't know how many papers will close...
Most of the prewar press worked for the Nazis during the occupation. When they fled, the 1,000 "tainted" publications were seized and their sullied titles banned. Today no Paris paper may bear the name of Le Matin, Le Petit Parisien, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre or Paris-Soir, among others. Some 300 publishers have still to stand trial...
...hard-boiled Pierre Lazareff (TIME, June 23) and now France's biggest paper (circ. 641,000); the Communist Humanite; the Catholic Figaro, famed for its high literary standards; L'Aurore, which rides the De Gaulle bandwagon; the witty, leftist (but not quite Commie) Franc-Tireur; sober Le Monde, the businessman's bible; and Parisien Libere, favorite of the petit bourgeoisie...