Word: napoleone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long sneered at margarine as "bull butter," had taxed it, regulated and abused it for more than half a century. Women had hardly murmured. For one thing, early margarine was not very tasty. A French chemist had stewed up the first batch from animal fats in 1869 because Napoleon III had offered a prize for a butter substitute. The result was a lardlike, greasy substance. Improved margarine, made from coconut oil, caught the public fancy during World War I. But it was not until the butter-rationed days of World War II that millions of women began buying...
Halfway House? Nevertheless, last week the urge toward European federation-or consolidation, or "Western Union," or whatever men might call the first steps toward a United States of Europe-was more vigorous than at any time since Napoleon's dream of unity-by-conquest crashed at Waterloo. Jean Boewet, looking out over Waterloo's rippling wheat, might well be skeptical. What could the statesmen show him besides the skeletons...
...hands on; but Europe as an entity did not exist. Charlemagne, a brief beacon in the Dark Ages, headed a "Roman Empire"-with the blessing of a new force for unity, the universal Church. Since then, most of the would-be unifiers have been secular-Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Hitler...
Polite Pierre Etchebaster, a wiry little Basque, has one thing in common with Henry VIII and Napoleon Bonaparte: he plays court tennis. Pierre, who is in his 50s, is the Babe Ruth of the game...
...biggest & best collection of borrowed art since the loot Napoleon had brought home to the Louvre from his conquering sweep of Europe. And it was even better guarded. In Washington's National Gallery, blue-coated guards in reinforced numbers paced the corridors. Military policemen stood in every room. But the 202 paintings they were guarding (estimated value: $80,000,000) were not loot, though they too had been brought back by conquerors (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). All but two-a Daumier and a Manet-had once hung on the walls of Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...