Word: michel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Criminal. Soon afterward, his leg irons resting comfortably against the grill of his cell, Meurant was enjoying a game of belote with two guards. Suddenly he whipped out the revolver. "One move," he said pleasantly, "and I'll burn you." While Meurant brandished his weapon, his cellmate, Murderer Michel Courtin, got the keys and unlocked the door. Meurant rounded up two more guards, locked them in the cell with the others, rummaged through the clothes locker for his good suit, and then calmly sat down to finish a letter. "I am escaping only to prove my innocence," he wrote...
...newspaper El Intransigente, in the northern Argentine city of Salta, was neither as big, old, rich, or famous as Buenos Aires' late great La Prensa. But under the editing of David Michel Torino, 56, it was Salta's best newspaper. Like La Prensa, El Intransigente was also outspokenly anti-Peron. For that it has been forced to pay with its life...
Henry Adams, in his eloquent book about Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, called these windows "the most splendid color decoration the world ever saw, since no other material, neither silk nor gold, and no opaque color laid on with a brush, can compare with translucent glass, and even the Ravenna mosaics or Chinese porcelains are darkness beside them...
Especially impressive is Suzanne Chappell's interpretation of Nora. Nora is essentially a split personality, vain and frivolous on one hand, determined and strong-minded on the other. Miss Chappel effectively stresses the latter. Thomas Gaydos as Torvald and Michel Bouche as Krogstad are both effective and convincing...
...United Fruit Co. is a $500 million enterprise. Its annual net earnings are greater than the national budget of any of the Central American countries in which it grows its big, sweet Gros Michel bananas for the U.S, and Europe. Years ago, the company used to operate in Guatemala and elsewhere with all the freewheeling methods that characterized the era of "dollar diplomacy." Since then, however, Unifruit has changed with the times, becoming a model big employer in the Caribbean. Paradoxically, Unifruit's reforms have only brought it under heavier attack by government and labor in Guatemala, especially since...