Word: libert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard run through the rain and mud in 1941, also in Palmer Stadium, to give the visitors a 6 to 4 victory; others will remember last fall's 13 to 12 triumph for the Crimson at Nassau, as Harlow's team withstood a frantic Tiger assault and Carl Libert's passes in the final minutes of play...
...Catholics shouted Liberté! Liberté! as revolutionaries had once chanted it in those same suburbs. Then they burst into the Marseillaise, which for 150 years was anathema to conservative clerics but had now become an answer to the Internationale...
Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
Moreover, there isn't much action - only jokes about the tomcat in men, the pussy cat in women, the peacock in actors. Nor has famed French Cinema Director Rene Clair (A Nous, La Liberté!) shown the French touch in his staging. Everybody just cavorts...
...through a mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...