Word: louison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alleged experts and arrant professionalism. Of the two dozen or so personages in the piece, only two are natural and honest human beings. The rest are all hypocrites or bluffers. Healthy Argan pretends to be riddled with illness; his inheritance-eyeing wife Beline protests familial affection; the small daughter Louison feigns death; Doctor Diafoirus maintains black is white; his nitwit son Thomas presumes to be clever; suitor Cleante impersonates a music teacher; the maid Toinette disguises herself as a doctor--and so on with the rest...
...third year in a row, French Bicyclist Louison Bobet made the long grind of the Tour de France (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), pedaled for 22 days through Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and around the rim of France, covered more than 2,700 miles and came home first to Paris' Parc-des-Princes stadium. Just 4 min. 52 sec. behind: Belgium's Jean Brankart...
...lzoard. Peering at the sky, the citizens of Briancon were worried. Cyclists of the Tour de France were pumping east from Grenoble on the 18th lap of their 25-day marathon, and rain could easily wash out the slim time advantage held by French Favorite Louison Bobet, 29. His rival, Swiss Champion Ferdi Rubier, 35, was an old hand at the hazards of mountain bicycle riding. A wet road might bother Bobet; Kubler might gain an unbeatable lead...