Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...olives. Because Mme. Miville-Dechêne had done her shopping in snow-mantled Quebec City on Saturday, she had five days to get ready for la fête de Noël-first the big réveillon feast that would follow midnight Mass, and then le diner de Noë at 1 o'clock Christmas afternoon...
Someone tossed a bomb into the yard of Communist Thorez's house at Choisy-le-Roi. Thorez was unhurt, but his wife was cut by flying glass. Without conscious irony, Thorez remarked: "There seems to be a lack of order in the country...
...fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses proletarian vulgarisms such as "On s'en fout" (an untranslatable idiom which means, roughly, the hell with it), and slang such as "Celui-là, on le descendra" (that fellow's going to get bumped...
...Europe just serving to gum up the works. They appeared in print all over the place and they added nothing but confusion and bad feeling to the situation. And I don't mean criticism by the Moscow New Times, I mean by reasonable, intelligent papers like Combat and Le Monde in Paris...
Fashionable Cheese. His new devotion to Raphael, Dali believes, is just as fashionable as his handsome hotel suite in midtown Manhattan (which he once described as "an immense Gothic Roquefort cheese"). In fact, he says, "eet ees prophétique. Le people are tired of l'ugliness. Eet ees not possible to continue the destructive themes of Picasso. Mon revolution," he adds gravely, "ees very close to Catholicism...