Word: le
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle's Cabinet met to consider the growing terrorism. But "Le grand Charlie" refused to be rattled. The problem should be left to the police, he reportedly argued. If the government reacted any more strongly, the F.L.N. would have achieved its purpose of throwing France into a seeming panic just when calmness was essential...
...drama developed from "misunderstanding" via "separation" to "I'll file for divorce," the Greek chorus of the Hollywood columnists was in full chant. Hedda Hopper got through to Liz, and when she asked the Widow Todd what the whole thing was about, the answer was unp-nt-le...
Outside Paris, terrorists sabotaged the railway at Salbris, fired gasoline depots near Le Havre and in six different places in the south of France. In Toulouse, 300,000 gallons of gasoline burned up. Near Marseille, firemen fought a gas fire that was to last all week...
...This business of equality can be carried too far," grumbled one agitated undertaker. Commented Le Monde: "It may seem too cruel to force those in extremis who have never traveled third class or used the public transport services or had to go steerage to go to their last destination in circumstances which nothing in their lifetime has prepared them for, and to inflict on them a dying so completely contrary to their living. It would be charity to accustom them to equality at a slightly earlier date in their lives...
...Writer Le Chanois has found the best possible formula for quieting objections to his frankly polemic theme: natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple tale, Old Pro Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain...