Word: moche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bergougnan rubber factory, where a Communist-fomented sit-in strike had been in progress two weeks. When French police arrived to enforce a court order requiring the strikers to vacate, the strike suddenly became a brutal reconnaissance in force for France's Communists and for Interior Minister Jules Moch's new, mobile Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité (security police...
...Assembly passed Premier Schuman's strike-control bill (TIME, Dec. 8). At week's end nearly 1,000 had been arrested on sabotage charges. Minister of Interior Jules Moch, a tall, dark, Communist-hating Socialist, told the Assembly that he had authorized police and troops to fire on rioters if necessary. Moch also said that newly mobilized reservists would be ready by Wednesday of this week, and that, thereafter, "in every mine and in every factory where men want to work . . . they will be free...
...French right-wingers the percentage seemed excessive. Cried conservative assemblymen: the proposed taxes would kill private enterprise and the incentive to save. Sneered Socialist Jules Moch: the proposed taxes were "too timid and too late." Growled Communist boss Jacques JDuclos: Minister Pleven was "toadying to the money interests...
George Hurd, Harvard's 150-pound crew manager, states that the Terriers are vastly improved over a year ago, but they are still in the smaller college rowing class, and Bob Moch's Engineers apparently are not up to their usual high standard...
Under Tech's dapper little coach, Bob Moch, the Engineers have staged a rowing renaissance, and they think so much of this year's crew that they have accepted an invitation to go to Poughkeepsie for the first time in nine years...