Word: mots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's peripatetic External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, bandying spirit-of-Geneva small talk with Soviet big shots during a social visit to Moscow last week, clinked champagne glasses with Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovitch and pitched a slow-curve bon mot: "We in Canada have an interesting geographical position in the world-between the Soviet Union and the United States . . . You might say we are the ham in the sandwich." Suggested Kaganovitch politely: "Or perhaps a good bridge?" "Well," agreed Pearson, "perhaps that's a nicer way of putting...
...article "Revolt & Revenge" [Sept. 5] is a good treatment of the subject, but pour-quoi do you find it necessaire to interrupt your English-speaking readers' trains of thought every now and again with un mot français? The practice strikes me as a bit stupide...
...length Bishop Tu turned to Bao Dai for help, and Father Quynh, now promoted to War Minister, began to get some real arms. Every parish was transformed into a training camp resounding with the call of mot hay, mot...
...called the right of a University of its teachers as the fundamental issue involved. "It is to the enduring credit of this university that its faculties and its officers of administration recognized the true character of the issue with which they had to deal and mot it with resolution and courage," he continued...
...which line its walls are only the outward aspect of the Museum's role in the University and in the study of anthropology. The Museum is far loss purely antiquarian and far more complex than it-may appear to most of its casual Sunday visitors. Like the figurative iceberg, mot of Peabody lies below the surface...