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Word: megret (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...pressure from Madame Simone, one Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor friend, once again you have understood absolutely nothing!" The third abstention, on the seventh ballot, allowed crafty Parliamentarian Simone to invoke a tie-breaking rule: as acting President, she cast two votes, and Novelist Megret, 53, had his Prix Femina. Cried the done-in Duchesse: "I am proud to have voted against eroticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hatpins & the Femina | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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