Word: mes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavily mascaraed, accepted the honor as an inevitable tribute to France's foremost woman writer. She breezed to the Goncourt election luncheon in a big black car. She hobbled with arthritic grace across the sidewalk through a lane of admirers and fellow Academicians. To flashbulbing cameramen she cried: "Mes enfants, you are ridiculous! You are machine-gunning me!" Archly she posed her frizzled, felt-hatted, grey head and pointed her sandaled, red-toenailed feet. What had she done during the occupation? "Mes enfants, I did the same thing as the last 15 years: nothing. I didn't budge...
...Nazis found few collaborators among French scientists But one great name, Alexis Carrel, has become anathema to Langevin and other resisters. Throughout the occupation Carrel had plenty of money for research under the big Fondation Franfaise Pour L'Etude Des Probleèmes Humains, created for him by Vichy. Last week Carrel declared that his foundation had concerned itself exclusively with scientific studies inspired by his Man the Unknown. But top-rank scientists charged that the foundation had a distinctly pro-Nazi tinge, that its subsidized sociological studies had served as a front for researches in "racism." After Paris...
...tried twice to get into Caen before the city fell and ran into a curtain of artillery fire both times-first in the British sector, later in the Canadian. ... Then along came two Frenchmen as unconcerned as if they were on a walking tour. 'Oh, no, mes amis, the Boche are not shelling.' So into the jeep we got and headed again for Caen...
...Yutang wrote this book after Frank lin Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid wall of the Washington blockade of supplies for China." This book is a small but potent charge...
...American hands. The plans had been made long in advance. The troops had been ready, and the ships. Even as the action began, Franklin Roosevelt's voice went by short-wave transcription to the people of France and French Africa. In slow, schoolboy French (starting with the inevitable Mes Amis) he said: "We come among you to repulse the cruel invaders. . . . Have faith in our words. . . . Help us where you are able. . . . Vive la France éternelle...