Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along Manhattan's broken-spirited Bowery, they would be called bums, but the sentimental Parisians have a fancier name for those uncounted thousands of their compatriots who, unshaved, unwashed and unnoticed, scratch out a life al fresco in the shadows of Notre-Dame, the teeming Les Halles markets and the Seine bridges. The French of Paris call their dedicated bums les clochards (ones who limp), and think of them as the spiritual descendants of the great and vagrant Francois Villon...
...postwar western is gradually moving away from "naive grandeur" toward social documentation and psychological detail, according to Jean-Paul Sartre's monthly Les Temps Modernes: "The 'neo-western' has developed in the direction of ambiguity . . . Under the double influence of 'black' films and psychoanalytical films, westerns have enriched themselves with a clinical description of the half-crazy desperadoes who roam the desert." Examples: Rawhide Ranger (1941) and Coroner Creek...
...began two years ago when the trading firm of Les Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi...
...good will by studiously refraining from sharp criticism or controversy with his opponents. Said he: "I have endeavored 'never to be harsh with people." The voters evidently like his friendly manner; plenty of them went right on voting Liberal in national elections, but when Les Frost ran in his" own league, they gave him landslide majorities...
Last Gesture. A crowd of 250,000 had come from all over Europe to watch les vingt-quatre heures, and thousands of them spurned the grandstands to cluster as close as they could to the dangerous turns. The cars to watch, said the wise ones, were the three Mercedes entries, for the Germans had put three months of methodical, painstaking planning into this all-out effort to prove their 3OO-SLR cars the best in the test...