Word: michel
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...head of a vastly expanded Ministry of Finance and Economics, was fiery Michel Debré, 54, lawyer and journalist who was mainly responsible for the Fifth Republic's constitution and was De Gaulle's first Premier, from 1959 to 1962. Debré won the unenviable nickname of Père Colère (Old Man Fury) for his ferocious attacks on the Fourth Republic; he earned still more bitter criticism by advocating a hard line on Algeria, and resigned after the ceasefire. Since then, however, he has staged a comeback, in both influence and popularity. As a Deputy...
...found in England only because it was exported there from France in 1194. A father in Normandy wanted to call his daughter Kelig, which he claimed was a perfectly good Breton name. Not so, ruled the Ministry of Justice, which imposed on her the correct Breton feminine diminutive of Michel-Mikelaig...
...electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors) to run up massive overweight charges. They do not lose money. Kenneth, for instance, charges $100 an hour or $500 a day for a house call. Alexandre gets $11 for just a wash and set, Michel Kazan $6 for snipping a lock...
...best shotputters, and the high jump has been a Russian specialty ever since Valery Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever run: 3 min. 53.8 sec., just...
...English-speaking world will have to wait for a biography that is worthy of the man. It can do worse, while waiting, than to browse in Frame's excellent translation of the Essays, whose subject is Michel de Montaigne...