Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard on the Communist heels pressed the Socialists. The Mouvement de Libération Nationale, No. 1 Resistance group and strongly socialist in outlook, put up notices, also addressed to women: "Sign our petition for more food!" MLN strategists thought they had a sure vote-catcher in the "more food" slogan. French daily rations-1,200 calories-were still gravely below the health minimum. Cried the Paris Combat: "On the food problem the Government has succeeded in rallying unanimity . . . against the Government." The Toulouse Patriote reported that housewives were saying, "We ate better when the Germans were here...
...rightist Mouvement de Libération Nationale grew out of the union of three Gaullist groups in southern France. Its military organization, the Corps Francs de la Libération, was second in importance only to the Communist-controlled F.T.P. in the F.F.I...
...resistance movement around Cherbourg was originally organized by three groups. One was Libération, organized by Socialists, scholars and labor leaders; a second was Front National, organized by Communists; and the third was called Organisation Civile et Militaire, a non-political organization, and the strongest in the Cherbourg area. Now by decree of the Algiers Government, combat elements of these groups are merged into the Forces Françaises de VIntérieure, a unit of the French Army under command of General Joseph Pierre Koenig (see WORLD BATTLE-FRONTS). According to resistance chiefs in Cherbourg, the movement...
...Messerschmitts jumped the B-24 Liberator bomber on its way to raid the Piacenza airport in northern Italy. The Lib got away and started its target run, but the hydraulic system had been shot to bits, the fluid had frozen over the bomb-bay mechanism. The doors wouldn't open...
Frothy Fuddle. The frothy fuddle with which he drops this kind of offbeat remark is the essence of Morgan's radio character. He is never at a loss for a sly ad lib. or a vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor...