Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Yvette's tiny house in the tiny hamlet of Mont-d'Origny (pop. 1,500), the Battle of the Bulge raged a hundred miles to the east in the snowy Ardennes, Hiroshima was bombed, China fell to the Communists, bandits stole a million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields...
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...Star (Paramount). "Why was it not in color? We're getting took with these TV black-and-whites."-F.E.S., Eureka, Mont...
...Triomphe, De Gaulle paused briefly to rekindle the flame at the tomb of France's unknown soldier. Then, re-entering his car, he moved on across the Seine to Mont Valérien, a historic fort that overlooks a tiny, sandy valley where 4,000 Frenchmen were executed during the Nazi occupation. His face working with emotion, De Gaulle relit the flame of the resistance, prayed for a few moments at the tomb of the 16 resistance heroes buried in the fort. When at last the defiant strains of the Marseillaise rolled out over the valley, there was unabashed...
Coming as they did from the citizens of radical Paris, the thunderous cheers that greeted De Gaulle on the Champs-Elysées and Mont Valérien constituted an impressive vote of confidence in his government that was in marked contrast with Paris' reluctant acceptance of his return to power. And to confirm the results of this emotional plebiscite, the French Institute of Public Opinion found that all over France 54% of those questioned regarded De Gaulle's return to power as "a great good" and only 9% thought it "very...