Word: modell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Age. Near by are underground workshops, rows of air-conditioned huts, and an airstrip fit for jets. To the south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive, the French are anxious not so much to catch up with other atomic powers overnight as to capture political prestige...
...forgery charge in his native Italy, Grassi started commuting to Paris in 1955, lived in style and passed himself off as a "director of Fiat." His connections seemed to impress George Allen, the modestly salaried chief cashier of American Express in Paris. Allen, who comes from Philadelphia, was a model of American-in-Paris respectability, living in a plainly furnished apartment, his biggest extravagance a Sunday picnic in Fontainebleau forest with his wife and two little girls, after passing the plate at Sunday morning services at the American Church...
...other U.S. automakers were shutting down plants last week for the changeover to 1960 models, Ford and Chevrolet were still rolling out cars in their battle for first place. For the full 1959 model year, which began last October, unofficial figures show Ford on top by some 20,000 cars. From January through July, though, Chevy is ahead by an estimated 29,000 cars. In July alone, Ford rushed ahead of Chevy, took more than 25% of the auto market...
...glise Way (later Swann's Way) or ambled along a winding river (later the Guermantes Way). On the lawns of the Champs Elysées, the 14-year-old played at prisoner's base and puppy love with perky Marie de Benardaky (a model of Gilberte in Remembrance). When the affair ended, Proust thought of suicide by jumping from his family's second-floor apartment...
...diplomatic service, he put his passion into social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied, "I'm so sorry; I prepared incest by mistake...